Toxic smoke shrouds Sydney amid a heatwave which has seen an area the size of Belgium ablaze.

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The colossal task of fighting New South Wales' unprecedented bushfires falls largely to a band of doctors farmers and factory workers who at 70,000-strong are the world's largest volunteer fire service.
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