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Learn moreGreg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and studied bushfires in Europe, Canada and the US. He risked his life in the 1994 Sydney fires and, later, during our catastrophic Black Summer of 2019-20. As a career firefighter, he worked his way up the ranks to become Commissioner of one of the world's largest fire services, Fire and Rescue NSW, for nearly fourteen years. When it came to natural disasters there was little, if anything, he hadn't witnessed first-hand.
Over five decades he watched as weather patterns and natural disaster risks changed, seeing bushfires becoming bigger, hotter and more destructive. He talked to scientists and weighed their evidence with his experience, coming to the realisation that man-made global warming was setting the stage for a deadly firestorm. In early 2019 he tried to warn the government that a Black Summer was imminent so that adequate preparations could be made. . .
But when he and former fire chiefs from across the country tried to meet with politicians to sound an urgent warning, they were ignored.
Combining thrilling stories of what it's like to be on the front line of Australia's first giga-fire with the hard truths of human-caused climate change, Firestorm is a compelling account of raging fire, political evasion, settled science, and one man's courageous, urgent call to action for all Australians.
Greg Mullins (Author)
Greg Mullins AO AFSM became a major national figure in the 2019-20 bushfire crisis - Australia's longest, hottest and most devastating on record. From being a volunteer firefighter then a career firefighter, he is an internationally recognised expert in responding to major bushfires and natural disasters. During his 39-year career he served as President, Vice President and Board Chair of the Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities' Council, Deputy Chair of the NSW State Emergency Management Committee, Australian Director of the International Fire Chiefs Association of Asia, NSW representative on the Australian Emergency Management Committee, Australian representative on the UN's International Search & Rescue Advisory Group, and as a member of the NSW Bushfire Coordinating Committee. He is currently Chair of the NSW Ambulance Service Advisory Board. In early 2019 he formed Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, a coalition of 34 former fire and emergency service chiefs from throughout Australia. They tried to warn the federal government of an impending bushfire disaster, were ignored, but continue to explain how climate change is super-charging the bushfire problem and why urgent action is needed on greenhouse emissions.
Hazem Shammas (Reader)
Since graduating from WAAPA, Hazem has built a solid reputation as an outstanding actor. Hazem's screen credits include Hungry Ghosts, The Hunting, My Life is Murder, The Secret She Keeps, The Gloaming, Halifax: Retribution, Safe Harbour, Underbelly, East West 101 and in film he appeared in the features X, The Tumbler and Alex and Eve. Renowned for his exceptional performances in theatre, his credits include Rules For Living (Sydney Theatre Company), Counting and Cracking, Sami in Paradise, Atlantis, Mother Courage and Her Children, Scorched, Antigone, Paul, Stuff Happens (Belvoir); Disgraced (Melbourne Theatre Company); Othello (State Theatre Company South Australia); The Tempest, A Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare); The Call (Griffin); Trustees, Criminology (Malthouse Theatre); The Tribe and Buried City (UTP/Belvoir/Sydney Festival).
Hazem's performance in Safe Harbour garnered a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Talent and an AACTA Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama.
Greg Mullins (Author)
Greg Mullins AO AFSM became a major national figure in the 2019-20 bushfire crisis - Australia's longest, hottest and most devastating on record. From being a volunteer firefighter then a career firefighter, he is an internationally recognised expert in responding to major bushfires and natural disasters. During his 39-year career he served as President, Vice President and Board Chair of the Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities' Council, Deputy Chair of the NSW State Emergency Management Committee, Australian Director of the International Fire Chiefs Association of Asia, NSW representative on the Australian Emergency Management Committee, Australian representative on the UN's International Search & Rescue Advisory Group, and as a member of the NSW Bushfire Coordinating Committee. He is currently Chair of the NSW Ambulance Service Advisory Board. In early 2019 he formed Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, a coalition of 34 former fire and emergency service chiefs from throughout Australia. They tried to warn the federal government of an impending bushfire disaster, were ignored, but continue to explain how climate change is super-charging the bushfire problem and why urgent action is needed on greenhouse emissions.
Hazem Shammas (Reader)
Since graduating from WAAPA, Hazem has built a solid reputation as an outstanding actor. Hazem's screen credits include Hungry Ghosts, The Hunting, My Life is Murder, The Secret She Keeps, The Gloaming, Halifax: Retribution, Safe Harbour, Underbelly, East West 101 and in film he appeared in the features X, The Tumbler and Alex and Eve. Renowned for his exceptional performances in theatre, his credits include Rules For Living (Sydney Theatre Company), Counting and Cracking, Sami in Paradise, Atlantis, Mother Courage and Her Children, Scorched, Antigone, Paul, Stuff Happens (Belvoir); Disgraced (Melbourne Theatre Company); Othello (State Theatre Company South Australia); The Tempest, A Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare); The Call (Griffin); Trustees, Criminology (Malthouse Theatre); The Tribe and Buried City (UTP/Belvoir/Sydney Festival).
Hazem's performance in Safe Harbour garnered a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Talent and an AACTA Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama.