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You are talking about the fine men and women of our defence forces.
Apparently after months of record breaking temperatures and little rain some officer thought it would be a good idea, on a day forecast for 36 degrees and extremely strong winds, to set off a few detonations on the army range at Lithgow!
My 'ancestral home' at Oaky Park is in one of the first streets which was at risk but has been saved. My father worked at Zig Zag Railway in the 1940s and apparently that has suffered severe damage with a lot of the historic rolling stock and workshop area damaged.
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