<p>In the first week of summer, dozens of homes have been destroyed in bushfires; at Dolphin Sands in Tasmania, on the New South Wales Central Coast, and at Bulahdelah, north of Newcastle where a firefighter also died. </p><p>A local builder at Koolewong in New South Wales noted that a recently constructed home, built to modern fire safety standards, was left standing while others around it burned to the ground. </p><p>Today, the ABC’s Central Coast reporter Sarah Forster on the homes that were lost in Saturday’s fire and an expert on building houses in high bushfire risk areas.</p><p>Featured: </p><p>Sarah Forster, ABC Central Coast reporter </p><p>Colin Wood, member of the Standards Australia committee for the construction of buildings in bushfire-prone areas</p>
