Hunter's Rural Fire Service numbers jump after summer of devastating blazes

By Scott Bevan
March 18 2020 - 6:00am
RECRUITS: Martinsville residents Pat Tierney, Steven Ward, and his 16-year-old daughter, Imogen Ward, have recently joined their local rural fire brigade. Picture: Jonathan Carroll
RECRUITS: Martinsville residents Pat Tierney, Steven Ward, and his 16-year-old daughter, Imogen Ward, have recently joined their local rural fire brigade. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

As Imogen Ward watched television reports of the devastating bushfires during summer and saw the flames come close to her own community, she felt "kind of useless".

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