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The year kicked off with record-breaking heat and devastating bushfires which ravaged the country s east coast. IN PICTURES: Two bushfires approach a home located on the outskirts of the town of Bargo.(Getty) During the 2019-2020 season, now known as Black Summer, 24 million hectares of land was burnt, 3000 homes destroyed and three billion animals were killed or displaced. Thirty-three people died, including six Australian firefighters and three American aerial firefighters. Huge fires first erupted across regional NSW on the North and South coasts, the Riverina and Snowy Mountains. READ MORE: NSW RFS fire fighters surrounded by smoke as they work on battling a fire near the Inghams Bargo Chicken Breeder Production Complex at Tahmoor, NSW. this fire is a part of the Green Wattle Creek Fire South West of Sydney on December 20, 2019.(Kate Geraghty/Sydney Morning Herald) ....