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In previous fires, he benefited from the proximity, with helicopters inadvertently dropping water on his property, even if the flames weren’t close by.

It took them only about a minute to fill their water tanks with hoses as they hovered above the surface, and then only a couple of more minutes to drop their loads on the flames and return for more.

The rest of the workers followed and started throwing buckets of water onto the flames. “[It’s] pretty full on … you can feel the heat off the flames, it’s insane," Mr Argiropoulos said.

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