After years of service fighting fires, Bruce Barnes has been diagnosed with three cancers his specialists say are linked to bushfire smoke inhalation. He's now in a fight with the NSW government on not one, but two fronts.
GM this month expanded the Bolt safety recall for the second time and paused production of all new Bolts. The safety action on its lone U.S. electric car will cost GM an estimated $1.8 billion, among its costliest recalls.
Basic firefighting techniques have changed little in decades — but fires themselves are now changing as the world warms, complicating an already perilous profession.
