Australian PM Honours Fallen Firefighters with Memorial Playground

Melissa O'Dwyer, whose husband Andrew O'Dwyer was killed while on duty as a volunteer firefighter, is hugged by a member of the Horsley Park Rural Fire Brigade in Sydney, Australia on Dec. 22, 2019. Jenny Evans/Getty Images

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has opened a playground in rural New South Wales (NSW) built to honour two volunteer firefighters who died in last summer’s catastrophic fires.

The memorial playground will be a place of peace, healing and quiet reflection but also of play, Morrison says.