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George’s Story

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George’s Story

April 26, 2018
By Gamba Grass Roots
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With most of our native grass fires, unless they’re very heavy, you can actually walk through the middle of them.

With a gamba fire, you cannot get near it. It’s hard to find a way to explain to people out there the actual heat produced by a gamba fire.

With these gamba fires, we’re getting paint stripped off vehicles, the blinkers melt off. Our headlights get melted and that’s happening at 15 or 20 metres. people are getting burnt through their PPE, we’ve had to ensure that we have more than one layer on to stop that heat impacting us.

Some of the reports about gamba say that within 100 years, the Top End could actually start to look like the savannah lands of Africa, so it is a devastating introduced weed into the environment here.

We all love our rural areas in the Northern Territory, that’s sort of what it’s all about up here, it’s about getting out and having a fish and a bike around, but we want to be safe in doing it. But we want to keep the Territory as the Territory.

Gamba is a very dangerous grass to deal with in a fire situation. The one message I’d like to get out there is look around your property, identify any gamba you’ve got.

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    Monday, 3, Oct
    Early release of federal Gamba funding welcomed by community alliance
    Tuesday, 17, May
    Tackling gamba grass a major election issue in the Territory
    Wednesday, 2, Mar
    Top End community campaign wins national Froggatt Award for fight against grass
    Thursday, 27, Jan
    Federal funding towards Gamba control could help reduce fire risks and prevent dangerous weed spreading throughout Northern Australia
    Friday, 3, Dec
    Tourism operators call on NT Government to act to protect Litchfield Park from gamba grass
    Tuesday, 21, Feb
    New report reveals more than 20% of Litchfield National Park remains heavily infested with Gamba Grass
    Monday, 24, Oct
    How the Territory’s fight against Gamba is tracking
    Friday, 7, Oct
    Gamba Army funding announcement welcomed by Gamba Grass Roots
    Wednesday, 18, May
    See where the parties stand on Gamba action this election

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