westralia as fire service depends overwhelmingly on volunteers cooks students and lawyers are among those who have been trying to face down the flames. for weeks or even months at a time they have neglected their day jobs to try to save their country they risk their lives to try to save communities from the flames the firefighters have lists setting out the order of priority in which things should be saved. buildings that serve the community the top of the list and private homes come last. year we're going to swap. them if you want. this firefighting team just managed to save themselves in time. to. act. out. in belfast with. the trip. to. well. normally it's the sparsely populated remote areas that are hit but this year the fires have come very close to coastal areas where the majority of australians live. the temperatures in the bushfire areas can reach hundreds of degrees celsius almost 2 thirds of kabongo has been destroyed the village in new south wales is just 10 kilometers from the coast. getting up to save half of the old stand we see in the system. at the beginning of january liz