The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees / Is my destroyer. / And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose / My youth is bent by the same wintry fever¡¦.by Dylan Thomas
summe331 2019-12-24 (19:30) IP address :185.183.107.235
"So many people aren't making an income but are putting every part of their passion and blood into this campaign - it's really, really rough on a lot of people," she says.
She describes the RFS as Æ÷Ƽ ¸Æ½º ´ë¿ë·® ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=Á¦ÀϾÆÄí¾Æ Æ÷Ƽ ¸Æ½º ´ë¿ë·® ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» + 3±¸ ÇÏÀ̺긮µå Àü±â·¹ÀÎÁö·»Å»¸Å¿ìÁÁÀ½ her family - and in her case this is a literal statement. Out on the fireground she's standing alongside her father and her younger brother, as well her friends, her neighbours, all of them communicating via radio.
"You can just hear the fatigue in their voices ½Å¹ß·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=½Å¹ß·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® and almost imagine their dirty, sweaty, ash-covered faces," she says.
"Everyone's working so hard ÀÌÅ¿øºÎµ¿»ê to keep everything together but there's no rain forecast, and there's really nothing we can do to stop this fire."
"It's like do we start to give up hope now that this isn't going to stop?"
Prime3222 2019-12-24 (18:56) IP address :185.183.107.235
Public support for the "firies" is at an all-time high. In the swing of the Christmas season, shops and restaurants are donating profits to the NSW RFS. Online, there have been fundraisers to buy masks, food, and other supplies for the crews.
However, Australia's government »ì±Õ ³ÃÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=ûȣ³ªÀ̽º »ì±Õ ³ÃÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» ¼¼´ÏŸ ÈÀÌÆ®¹«·á has so far rejected the calls for compensation.
"Now is not the time to go into it. Let's get through ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß=·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß this [bushfire crisis] first," said Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday.
He added: "When people join these ÄíÄí Àξؾƿô ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=ÄíÄí Àξؾƿô 10s ÀÚµ¿»ì±Õ ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» ¸ÞÅ»½Ç¹öÈǸ¢ÇØ organisations, they do it to protect their community and do it out of a sense of great service."
That is what many firefighters say - they're not motivated by money. They are reticent to speak up for any sort of handout. They've also been consumed with fighting the fires.
"People don't get it, people think how do you risk your ´ä·Ê¶± life and not get paid for this stuff?" Mr Knox says.
sidec333 2019-12-24 (18:52) IP address :185.183.107.235
She is filmed sitting at a desk featuring photographs of her family, including one of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and a black-and-white image of the Queen's father, King George VI.
There is also a photograph of of the ¸íǰ·¹Çø®Ä«Ãßõ=¸íǰ·¹Çø®Ä«Ãßõ Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and sidecar - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.
It features a photograph ÀÌÅ¿øºÎµ¿»ê of Harry and Meghan with their seven-month-old son Archie crawling towards the camera, and a message reading: "Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours".
eve332221 2019-12-24 (18:40) IP address :185.183.107.235
"They volunteer as much as they can afford, sometimes even more than they can afford. It is not sustainable," says Mick Holton, president ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß=·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß of the Volunteer Fire Fighters Association.
It often involves long hours, weeks away from paid work, and accruing expenses along the way. Earlier this year, Mr Knox travelled to the °æ»ê»çµ¿Á·¹ß town of Tenterfield to help fight blazes there. It was an eight-hour drive from Sydney - he paid for his own petrol.
photo3331 2019-12-24 (18:37) IP address :185.183.107.235
"And yeah, there have been times when I've been in the thick of it, and it's so fierce you can't breathe. And I'm thinking to myself, what am I doing here?"
"But when you're on ·¹Çø®Ä«¼îÇÎ=·¹Çø®Ä«¼îÇÎ the truck, you're with your brothers," he said.
He took care of Mr O'Dwyer's À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǵµ¸Å=À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǵµ¸Å young daughter when the prime minister visited the station on Sunday, to meet with her grieving mother.
He's proud of the photo he shared last week, which was taken in a controlled setting. That image of him standing in the middle of a flaming forest has gone viral. Mr O'Dwyer had helped him put the finishing touches ½Å¹ß·¹Çø®Ä«=½Å¹ß·¹Çø®Ä« on the edit.
"Everyone has a choice in life, in what they want to do when they wake up in the morning," says Mr Knox.
"I'd rather be out there firefighting - doing our õ¾È¿ø·ë¸Å¸Å part for the community. Making those two boys proud of us for getting back out there."
landsc33 2019-12-24 (18:17) IP address :185.183.107.235
"We're doing it because it's a passion. It's a brotherhood," says Daniel Knox.
"When that photo was À̹ÌÅ×À̼Çsa=À̹ÌÅ×À̼Çsa±Þ À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǼîÇÎ ·¹Çø®Ä«¼îÇθô taken of me, I had done a 15-hour shift out there."
He is one of thousands of Australians who've dropped their ordinary lives to battle the nation's raging fire crisis.
For weeks, the 22-year-old landscaper À̰ú¼ö¾óÀ½Á¤¼ö±â·»Å»=ûȣ³ªÀ̽º NEW À̰ú¼ö ¾óÀ½Á¤¼ö±â·»Å» 700S´ë´ÜÇÔ has lived around his phone, springing into action when called upon.
He is part of the New À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽð跹Çø®Ä«=À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽðè À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǹ̷¯±Þ À̹ÌÅ×À̼Ƿ¹Çø®Ä« South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) which calls itself "the world's largest volunteer firefighting organisation". Its 70,000 members are extensively trained and, except for a few senior staff, mostly unpaid.
Mr Knox joined his local brigade °æ»ê»çµ¿Á·¹ß in Sydney's south-west five years ago, when he was 17. He bonded with a senior member - Andrew O'Dwyer - over football and photography.
"He took me under his wing, looked after me and helped me out so much. The respect he gave me, a young bloke, even when I made mistakes... he was my brother," he told the BBC.
Last Thursday, Mr O'Dwyer and Geoffrey Keaton, the deputy captain at the Horsley Park Fire Brigade, were sent out late at night to a massive firefront.
countr331 2019-12-24 (18:04) IP address :185.183.107.235
It has been a year which, at times, may have felt "quite bumpy", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.
It is a choice of words which È«Äá·¹Çø®Ä«¹Ì·¯±Þ=·¹Çø®Ä«¹Ì·¯±Þ ·¹Çø®Ä«·¹Çø®Ä« ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.
She does not offer any clarification herself, though ³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls "long-held differences" and how "small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions".
The Queen will be hoping that for Christmas ´ä·Ê¶± she will at least be reunited with her husband, and his family will be hoping he's well enough today to join them at Sandringham.
intervie12 2019-12-24 (18:04) IP address :185.183.107.235
In September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.
Last month, the Duke ¿õÁøÄÚ¿þÀÌ ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=¿õÁøÄÚ¿þÀÌ ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» / CHP-590R¾Æ¸§´Ù¿ò of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.
She refers to the life of Jesus and the ·¹Çø®Ä«µµ¸Å=·¹Çø®Ä«ÀÏ´ëÀÏ ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÔ ·¹Çø®Ä«µµ¸Å importance of reconciliation, saying "small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding".
"The path, of course, is not always °æ»ê»çµ¿Á·¹ß smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference."
summ333 2019-12-24 (17:34) IP address :185.183.107.235
Close to 90% of those people wÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» ºê·¹ÀÎ=¹ÙµðÇÁ·£µå wÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» ºê·¹ÀÎ+wź»ê¼ö±â·»Å» ·¹Æ®·ÎÇÕ¸®ÀûÀΰ÷ on the ground are unpaid volunteers, says the NSW RFS, the government-funded organisation leading the fight.
This century-old model is common ³ª³ëÁ÷¼öÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=¿õÁøÄÚ¿þÀÌ ³ª³ë Á÷¼ö Á¤¼ö±â·»Å»½Ç¹ö / CHP-7200NÂøÇѰ÷ across Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia - Australian states which have traditionally had bushfires each summer. In recent years, fires have also flared up in Tasmania and sub-tropical Queensland.
In NSW, most of the 2,000 or so brigades are found in country towns and rural centres dotted among eucalyptus bushland. Members are ´ä·Ê¶± almost always locals, stepping in to save their own communities.
Historically, the work has tended to be patchy, which has been a key factor behind the volunteerism. Fires don't rage all year round, and there have been years when many areas aren't affected at all.
But this year, the situation has changed. Intense blazes typically seen in later summer have flared in spring, forcing authorities to wage full-blow campaigns earlier than ever before.
been33334 2019-12-24 (17:27) IP address :185.183.107.235
They're also dealing with hundreds more fires, burning simultaneously in hotter and drier conditions. NSW has been in drought for years, and fires are ripping through the state.
'Everyone's working ÇÁ·Î¿öÅÍÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=¿õÁøÄÚ¿þÀÌ ÇÁ·Î¿öÅÍ Á¤¼ö±â·»Å» / CHP-264L°¡¼ººñ so hard'
For weeks, Lucy Baranowski has been among the crews fighting that blaze, and others closer to her home in Kurrajong Heights. She Å¥¹ÖS PLUS ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=Çö´ëÅ¥¹Ö Å¥¹ÖS PLUS Ä«¿îÅÍ ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» ºí·¢ÁÁÀº°÷ and her partner took leave from their day jobs a few weeks ago - and are currently skating by on savings, credit cards and support from family and friends.
She misses her children - she evacuated À̹ÌÅ×À̼dz²¼º½Ã°è=À̹ÌÅ×À̼dz²¼º½Ã°è them to her parents' home over a week ago. On Saturday, her crew helped save a friend's property - a success. But then the wind changed, and the crew could only stand by as the blaze tore through the neighbouring village of Bilpin.
The situation is extreme, but she has been õ¾È¿ø·ë¸Å¸Å buoyed by the "bubble of love" from her community, she tells the BBC.
Her friends have organised her children's Christmas presents. Others have manned shifts cooking and cleaning for crews at the station. A prolific blogger, her latest posts about her fireground days have gone viral on social media.