GoPro: First-Person Scenes Show What It's Like to Fight a Fire [video]

Since last week, Australia has registered more than 100 fire outbreaks in the south of the country. According to news reports, due to the atypical heat and strong winds, many residents of the Australian state of New South Wales - which is the most populous in the country - had their homes compromised as some fires got out of control and could not be contained by Fire crews.

In the firefight, one of the Rural Fire Service firefighters - a voluntary organization that survives on donations - revealed the seriousness of the situation through scenes made with a GoPro. Many aerial images of the region have been broadcast in the media, but it is the camera installed in the volunteer's helmet that shows us the real difficulties of fighting a fire of such proportions.

It appears that the video was shot last week when the flames were even more dangerous, and shows the firefighter analyzing the intensity of the fire in a cloud of smoke and then warning residents that it was no longer possible to leave the fire. car. A few seconds later, the images show that some residents were being taken inside the fire truck. You can also hear the volunteer coughing, probably due to the large amount of smoke and soot in the air.