A number of local Rural Fire Service (RFS) volunteers have given their time to assist fellow firefighters battle blazes in northern NSW and QLD.
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Andrew Vale, Denis Hibbard, Karina Russell and Lincoln Spence from Waugoola RFS and Dale Boyd from the Merriganowry brigade have traveled to areas such as Drake and Bees Nest to help with firefighting efforts.
The fires, which were only declared out late last week, resulted in the loss of two lives and 44 homes were destroyed.
Spokesperson for the NSW RFS, James Morris, said volunteers from across the state are always willing to lend a hand with large scale fires.
"You see the volunteers in the RFS, you can tell that it's such a community based organisation," Mr Morris said.
"What we are seeing now, they're the first to stick their hand up to be able to travel, whether it be statewide or interstate to help their firefighting colleagues, they're dealing with people they've never met before, never worked with before and they click, they get in, they do the job that they need to to help protect communities."
Mr Morris said a number of RFS members and volunteers who assisted in Drake and Tenterfield are now fighting fires on the north and mid coast areas of NSW.
"Now we're seeing those people from Tenterfield and Drake and that north western area come back now and help out on the coast to assist those crews," he said.
"We're seeing these volunteers... going back not on one occasion but on multiple occasions for five day deployments to go back and help their colleagues and it just goes to show that community spirit that these volunteers do have.
"A lot of them are self employed, a lot of them have employers that have allowed them to have this time off because they know when it comes to fires in the local area, that they would hope, the families, the loved ones, the employees, employers would allow them to leave work to come back and protect the lives and homes in their area."
Mr Morris said it can only take one ember to spark a blaze and encouraged everyone to have a bush fire survival plan in place.
"Just because fires seem somewhat settled, contained, even patrolled, all it takes is one ember on a bad day to be blown outside of containment lines that we can see damage once again and destruction of life and property," he said.
"A bush fire survival plan... having that important discussion with their family, making sure everyone knows whether they will stay and defend or whether they're plan is to leave, know when they'll go, where they'll go and what they'll take in the event a fire does threaten. "