Across fire-ravaged communities, local heroes have emerged and are beginning to help recover their livelihoods and help entire towns get back on their feet.
Here, we talk to Josh Collings from Cudgewa and Pete Williams from the Flowerdale Recovery Committee who both worked with Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor, on Road to Recovery with Scott Pape on how they're coping with re-starting their lives. "We could see the smoke about 30km away over the mountain and we had about six to eight hours warning. "We didn't expect the fires to come, so we didn't take too much when we packed our things up and left our home.
A lot of people stayed in our town to defend their assets - we were some of few who left. "A few of us gathered in my gallery
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