A community radio station in the NSW country town of Braidwood staffed by exhausted volunteers became a lifeline for residents through the black summer bushfires.
abc.net.au/news/how-braidwood-fm-kept-nsw-country-town-informed/101777842As bushfires roared towards the NSW Southern Tablelands town of Braidwood in December 2019, there was limited information and communication.Braidwood FM was the only local source of emergency broadcasting available to the town through the black summer firesIt is now the platform for a new podcast, which examines the town's bushfire story.
ABC reception from Canberra and Bega can be patchy in the town; on this occasion emergency information was hard to hear. "Being on the ground and having local information was imperative to the success for what we did," he said."We were the only reliable station for both reception and content," he said.Watch"We could narrow down the information to people's property names and it gave people a better understanding of what was going on at the time."
Mr Waters and his team of volunteers provided emergency broadcasting live for hours every day until there were no further updates.
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