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Stephanie Gardiner

Ranger stares down wall of fire in award-winning photo

Indigenous rangers often fight fires with just a leaf blower to create breaks and extinguish blazes. (HANDOUT/AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE)

In the middle of Arnhem Land, there are no bright red fire trucks or water-bombing planes.

When a bushfire takes hold in the wilderness of the Northern Territory's north east corner, Indigenous rangers often fly in with little more than a leaf blower.

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