Brave emergency service volunteers teamed up with national parks and wildlife staff as they prepared to tackle the Bees Nest fire this morning.
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The bravery and teamwork they showed after a week of tackling the blaze was extraordinary as the professional national parks and wildlife helicopter crews briefed an RFS crew at Tyringham on Monday morning.
The RFS strike team was getting ready to go back into the blaze they had volunteered to fight.
RFS teams have been fighting the Bees Nest blaze for about 12 days.
"I have been sleeping at night so I am here in the morning to brief the new crews on our local conditions," the captain of Tyringham RFS Darren Wykes explains.
National Parks pilot Sean Leathers shared video from the cockpit of his chopper Park Air 3 with the Armidale Express.