Firefighter dies in NSW as premier warns of ‘foreboding’ start to bushfire season

Member of national parks firefighting team killed by tree at Bulahdelah in deeply distressing turn of events'

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A firefighter has died on the New South Wales mid-north coast, as the state's premier issued a warning about a foreboding beginning" to the bushfire season.

The deputy secretary of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Alex Graham, on Monday confirmed the death of one of their firefighters.