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ALAN TAYLOR NOVEMBER 20, 2019 23 PHOTOS IN FOCUS

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2. Rural Fire Service volunteers and New South Wales Fire and Rescue officers protect a home on Wheelbarrow Ridge Road during the Gospers Mountain fire near Colo Heights, southwest of Sydney, Australia, on November 19, 2019. # Dean Lewins / AAP Image via Reuters

6. Residents defend a property from a bushfire at Hillsville near Taree, on November 12, 2019. # Peter Parks / AFP / Getty

7. A kangaroo escapes the fire as the fire front approaches a property on November 15, 2019, in Colo Heights, Australia. # Brett Hemmings / Getty

13. The sun is blocked by smoke rising from the Gospers Mountain bushfire on November 15, 2019, in St Albans, Australia. # Sam Mooy / Getty

15. A bushfire burns outside a property near Taree on November 12, 2019. # Peter Parks / AFP / Getty


16. NSW Rural Fire Service crews fight a fire as it burns close to a property on Wheelbarrow Ridge Road at Colo Heights, northwest of Sydney, Australia, on November 19, 2019. # Dan Himbrechts / AAP Image via Reuters


19. Burned cars lie in a vacant derelict property along Putty Road after a devastating fire tore through the area near Colo Heights on November 14, 2019. # Brett Hemmings / Getty

20. A joey separated from its dead mother is pictured in a burned-out section of Torrington on November 11, 2019, in Glen Innes, Australia. # Brook Mitchell / Getty

21. A dehydrated and injured Koala receives treatment at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital on November 2, 2019, after its rescue from a bushfire. # Saeed Khan / AFP / Getty

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