On a hot windy afternoon, a day of Total Fire Ban, I went looking for a box I had kept from January 2003. It held a pile of photos, a scorched page of a book that landed in our yard, a black and twisted fork. A copy of the Canberra Times that listed the houses destroyed, suburb by suburb, street by street รข" 17 in our street alone, I seem to recall. A decade ago today the Canberra firestorm ripped through suburban streets, destroying houses and lives. But memories remain and lessons have been learned. More » |
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