Firefighters are using TikTok to "brighten the mood of Australians" and share experiences from the front lines of Australia’s bushfire crisis.

Samantha Smith-Wells, a 25-year-old volunteer firefighter whose clips have gone viral, tells Newsflare why they do it.

"We are volunteer firefighters with the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. Our crew has been one of many assisting with the blazes we have burning across the state.

"All of our active members also work full time, so have been taking time off work and using our free time to assist with these emergencies. Our crew ranges from around 17-years-old to around 60-years-old.

"I didn’t expect even 1,000 people to watch my TikTok's and we’re at around 169k views on the plank challenge so we were all quite shocked."

Mulgoa RFB doing the tiktok plank challenge

Mulgoa category 1 tanker responding to a fire call, in the Cumberland zone of NSW Australia

Showing some of our new members the national park in Cumberland zone

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We are volunteer firefighters with the nsw rural fire service, and are members of Mulgoa rural fire brigade in NSW.
Our crew has been one of the many this fire season assisting with the many blazes we have burning across the state, including but not limited to Gospers Mountain fire, Green Wattle Creek fire, Gross Valley Fire.
All of our active members also work full time, so have been taking time off work and using their free time to assist with these emergencies.
Our crews range from around 17 years old to around 60 years old

I posted them just to show people some of what we do, and I guess to try and brighten the mood of Australians in such a horrible time.
I didn’t expect even 1000 people to watch it, and we’re at around 166k views on the plank challenge so we were all quite shocked

My mum is a volunteer firefighter aswell so I basically spent my childhood and grew up at the fire station. I’ve been a member for 13 years, and I’m 25.