How a radical plan called 'The Plug' saved homes and lives
During the 2013 Blue Mountains fires The Plug was a high-risk containment strategy to prevent bush fires spreading to the whole Blue Mountains.
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Imagine what might have happened if The Plug had not been successful?
Remote Area Fire Fighters were brought in to implement The Plug.
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Actor Ben Lawson, who has starred in Modern Family, Firefly Lane, 13 Reasons Why, wrote this poem in Los Angeles where he has lived since 2008, as a love letter to his burning homeland.
On Monday 3 February 2020 this special bush fire edition of Four Corner first went to air on ABC Television.
#1 FACT
There was a 30 percent chance The Plug containment strategy would hold.