Meet the firefighters left homeless after battling last season's bushfires

ABC South East NSW, 4 June 2020 as told to Vanessa Milton, Rosie King and Kerrin Thomas

It was the most unrelenting disaster in Australia's recent history.

From the first significant outbreak of bushfires in July 2019 until the rains finally came in February 2020, firefighters put their jobs, families and lives on hold, battling blazes that consumed millions of hectares and destroyed thousands of homes.

Some of those firefighters now find themselves among an overwhelming number of Australians sifting through the ruins of their own homes as they come to terms with the overwhelming tragedy of the 2019-2020 bushfires.

Across Australia, more than 300 firefighters and brigade volunteers lost or sustained damage to their own homes in the fires, which also claimed the lives of six firefighters.

Some of the firefighters left homeless by the fires shared their story with the ABC. Read more...