'We had empty dams': Councils recall fighting Black Summer fires during drought

Katie Burgess
Updated June 24 2020 - 12:47pm, first published 4:30am
Some landholders in northern NSW were upset the Rural Fire Service had taken water from their dams to save villages. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Some landholders in northern NSW were upset the Rural Fire Service had taken water from their dams to save villages. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Local councils have recalled fighting the Black Summer bushfires with empty tanks and dams after years of drought, during a hearing of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements on Tuesday.

Katie Burgess

Katie Burgess

Federal politics reporter

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