Personal Work: Stories: The Long Season: Bushfire09

David Hood, a CFA firefighter from Tanjil Brigade, listens to crew leaders as the deliberately lit Coopers Creek fire spreads rapidly towards neighboring towns. Within hours the fire went on to destroy more than a dozen homes in the Toongabbie and Cowwarr regions and burned more than 17,000 acres overnight.

David Hood, a CFA firefighter from Tanjil Brigade, listens to crew leaders as the deliberately lit Coopers Creek fire spreads rapidly towards neighboring towns. Within hours the fire went on to destroy more than a dozen homes in the Toongabbie and Cowwarr regions and burned more than 17,000 acres overnight.