Amid the horrors of the country’s worst bushfires ever, Australians organize grassroots disaster-relief networks offering help to thousands of people who have been displaced.
A Royal Australian Navy aircrewman flies over the burnt countryside of New South Wales, Australia, inside an MRH-90 helicopter during Operation Bushfire Assist 2020, on Jan. 8, 2020.Boland’s project was boosted thanks to existing communities around Queanbeyan and Canberra that tapped their own networks. With help from a couple friends, Boland's Faecbook group, which she initially set up for a one-off barbecue, grew quickly.
Australians were told to leave the coast as soon as they could, but intermittent road closures, fuel shortages and traffic jams made travel difficult. With electricity cut off and cellular networks patchy at best, only emergency radio broadcasts remained. "It just sort of clicked with me that, well, this is the beginning,” she said. “This flood of people are coming to Canberra, and where are they going to go?"just to link evacuees with community accommodation. A week later, it had over 9,000 members and she had about 10 other trusted moderators, including one in Canada who handles the graveyard shift.
Community efforts have also organized around helping Australia’s firefighters, who have been stretched thin battling the blazes. One Facebook group,Driver Robert "Cowboy" Gorman waits for donated water to be loaded onto his vehicle.Others are driving through hazardous conditions to transport goods. Truck driver Robert"Cowboy" Gorman has worked with Andrew Dale, who owns a catering business based around a food van that’s well known in Canberra.
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