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12 November 2019, The Guardian, South Turramurra: Sydney suburb in the pink after surviving bushfire emergency. Douglas Greening was chatting with a neighbour outside his Turramurra home when he heard the bushes crackling. A glance up at the thick scrub that surrounds the affluent Sydney suburb told him all he needed to know. The bushfires had come to Sydney, on the worst possible day – a day of catastrophic fire danger. “We looked up and rang triple-0 straight away,” Greening told Guardian Australia. Within minutes, police were on scene. They would soon confirm multiple fires in the area were being treated as suspicious. The pumpers weren’t far behind. Greening has been through three fires in his 28 years in Turramurra. None were as ferocious. He says he could feel the heat from the towering flames hot against his face. Read more here