"They've seen it before, this isn't their first rodeo." A firefighter injured while fighting the blaze on Tuesday was airlifted to a Perth hospital, while another is being treated for minor injuries.

In early September, Gillett was among a group of novices competing at the 2024 Robe River Rodeo in the West Australian mining town of Pannawonica, 1,400 kilometres north of Perth. The station hand ...