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During the 2013 Blue Mountains fires The Plug was a high-risk containment strategy to prevent bush fires spreading to the whole Blue Mountains. It was estimated there was a 30% chance the strategy would hold.

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. It was estimated there was a 30% chance the strategy would hold.

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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.
From a single lightning strike to Australia's largest bush fire
On Monday 3 February 2020 this special bush fire edition of Four Corner first went to air on ABC Television.
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