From walking firegrounds searching for injured wildlife 🦘, to bracing our centre for one of the most dangerous bushfire days in years 🔥 — this is the reality our team is facing right now. We are exhausted 😪. But this morning there is no pause ⏯️. With extreme heat and catastrophic fire conditions forecast 🌡, we are urgently moving as many animals as possible into the safety of our Embarr bushfire-sprinkler-defended clinic 💦. If a fire were to hit us today, there would be no time to do this

KOALA RESCUE | A woman rescued a koala caught in the middle of a fire in New South Wales, Australia on Tuesday. The woman took off her top and used the shirt to wrap the badly burned animal. She also offered it water from a bottle. The woman said she was going to bring the koala to a hospital. | KHOU 11 News

A dramatic rescue video shows a woman pull a badly burned koala from a bushfire in Australia. 🐨 The woman took the shirt from her back to help get the animal to safety. Watch her reunite with the koala she saved: https://7ny.tv/2s7Zxnn | ABC7NY

UPDATE: "Lewis" the koala reunited with the woman who rescued him from a fire in New South Wales, Australia on Tuesday. The 14-year-old animal is recuperating from severe burns at a koala hospital. Here's a look at the reunion. https://cbsn.ws/35lVrpY | CBS Sunday Morning

LEWIS THE KOALA | A koala filmed crawling through the bushfires near Port Macquarie yesterday is recovering in the local koala hospital. He's suffering from severe burns, but here he is having a munch on some eucalyptus leaves this morning - which keepers say is a good sign! | NBN Television