A National Parks and Wildlife worker walks down a bush track through thick smoke during a hazard reduction burn in Sydney in July 2017

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Hazard reduction burning reduces the leaf litter and undergrowth load in an area on public bush land which leads to less intense fires in the case of a summer bush fire. Hazard reduction burns are conducted across the state during the cooler months of the year

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Location: Hornsby Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Photo credit: © Stephen Dwyer / Alamy / Afripics
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