Rural Fire Service volunteers in the Hunter are looking forward to spending more time with their families after a very busy bushfire danger period, which officially winds up today.
The RFS turned out to more than 1200 jobs in the Lower Hunter, including the huge Lone Pine fire at Port Stephens which burnt out more than 9,000 hectares over eight days, and the Racecourse Road fire at Cessnock which tore through just over 1,000 hectares
More than 500 volunteer firefighters battled those two fires assisted by 13 aircraft.
