RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says fires are not going out until we see some “good rain”

Supplied video obtained Thursday, December 19, 2019, of NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons speaking to media after the NSW government declared a state of emergency. Mr Fitzsimmons talks about some of the challenges that firefighters are facing during a fire season which kicked off in winter. "The big thing that I am picking up from crews is their sense of despair," he says. "When they see the devastation in their local community they take it very personally. When they see loss, they see that as a failure. "But my job, our job collectively is to boost them and say, the reality is, you simply can't save everything and everybody under these sorts of conditions, despite your very best of efforts." (AAP VIDEO/Supplied/NSW Rural Fire Service) Via news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site https://www.news.com.au