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Old 24-01-14, 23:39
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Well, I dug up the story about the woman in Marysville, as told by the woman herself to the Royal Commission into Black Saturday. I think you'll agree it's a helluva story, quite apart from the water curtain.

By way of background, Marysville was a picturesque historic town near Melbourne with a population of around 500, which was virtually wiped off the map on Saturday 7th Feb 2009 when bushfire destroyed 90% of buildings and killed 45 people, representing one quarter of the death toll of 173 in what was "the largest, deadliest, and most intense firestorm ever experienced in Australia's post-European history." Marysville is gradually rebuilding but of course little remains of the Marysville which existed before Black Saturday.

http://vol4.royalcommission.vic.gov....ex.php?pid=100
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