A firefighter badly burnt while battling an out of control grass fire near Gunning, to the ACT's north, has regained consciousness and is recovering in hospital.
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Father of three Rick Hinds, from Gunning, was fighting a fire about 8km south of Gunning on Monday. A sudden change of wind turned the flames towards his NSW Rural Fire Service crew's tanker.
RECOVERING: Volunteer Rick Hinds with his young daughter.
He suffered burns to his face, throat and hands and was airlifted to Concord Hospital in Sydney, where he is now in a stable condition.
His wife, Krystaal Hinds, also an RFS firefighter, was listening to the fire radio as the crew battled the flames. "I heard there was a casualty, and I knew, just knew it was him," she told Channel Seven.
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