Black Saturday Feb 7th 2009
On Saturday 7th of Feb 2009 a fire changed the lives forever of our township Wandong and surrounding districts. A total of 222 houses alone in our small community and numerous businesses were completely destroyed. This destructive fire did not discriminate and raced through 35kms in 16.5 minutes towards the township of Kinglake.
The spirit of these towns will rise from the ashes with our amazing community determination and with the assistance of our city neighbours. To quote the words of our Prime Minister “These towns will be rebuilt house by house and street by street”.
We have seen firsthand the raw and fragile emotions as we have helped those who we have never met before and now call friends. We have cleared properties, cooked, cleaned, mentored and been a shoulder to cry on for my neighbours and admire the true mateship that unites us as Australians