James Koens been with the NSW Rural Fire Service for 19 years after joining as a junior firefighter in 2003. I’m currently a Deputy Captain with the Service providing a number of functions such as Training & Assessment and incident management both domestically and abroad. More notably, he fulfiled the roles of Divisional and Sector Commander during the 2019-20 fires, and Operations Chief on a deployment to Canada in 2021.
Aerial firefighting assets in Australia - after Black Summer, what's changed?
Two years on, Australia continues to sift through the ashes of the bushfires in 2019-20 in a bid to ensure the lessons learnt from the most devastating fire season in…