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During the 2013 Blue Mountains fires The Plug was a high-risk containment strategy to prevent bush fires spreading to the whole Blue Mountains.

How a radical plan called 'The Plug' saved homes and lives

During the 2013 Blue Mountains fires The Plug was a high-risk containment strategy to prevent bush fires spreading to the whole Blue Mountains.

See a map of The Plug

IMAGINE

Imagine what might have happened if The Plug had not been successful?

Remote Area Fire Fighters were brought in to implement The Plug.

Firestormer
  • Fighting fires,
  • Fire in the environment,
  • Fire fighters,
  • Major bush fires,
  • Respond,
  • Place,
  • Environment,
  • Blue Mountains bush fires,
  • Fires in remote areas

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Intel
Actor Ben Lawson, who has starred in Modern Family, Firefly Lane, 13 Reasons Why, wrote this poem in Los Angeles where he has lived since 2008, as a love letter to his burning homeland.
What is a Total Fire Ban?
On hot and windy days, the fire service may declare a ban on all fires.
#1 FACT

There was a 30 percent chance The Plug containment strategy would hold.

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