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What is it like to be a volunteer firefighter during Australia's bushfire crisis?

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned that the devastating bushfires raging in the country might go on for months. At least 24 people have died since the fires began in September. Air quality in the capital Canberra was this weekend rated the worst in the world. Over the weekend Mr Morrison announced the creation of a recovery agency to help those who have lost homes and businesses in the fires and the largest military call-up in the country's recent history, mobilising up to 3,000 reservists to assist exhausted volunteer firefighters. Jules Vitoria is one of them in New South Wales. He is a former British army officer in the UK and has lived in Australia for eleven years.

(Photo: Jules Vitoria. Credit: Jules Vitoria)

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