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Stories of Black Saturday at Kinglake
On 7 February 2009 Sergeant Roger Wood found
himself at the epicentre of the worst bushfire disaster in
Australia's history. Black Saturday.
Wood, who's a country cop with twenty years experience—and also
a raucous, meditating, horse-riding vegan—was the only officer
on duty in the small community of Kinglake. As the firestorm
approached he was called out to numerous incidents including
multi-fatality car accidents. He led a group of fifty people
from a store west of Kinglake four kilometres to safety through
burning bush. Minutes before it was completely destroyed.
Then, as the fire raged around him, he phoned his family ten
kilometres away to warn them what was coming. When his wife
answered, she screamed that the fire had already hit their
property. Then the line went dead.
Black Saturday was a many-headed monster in whose wake stories
of grief, heroism and desolation erupted all over the state of
Victoria. This book is about the monster—and the heroism of
those who confronted it.
Soft
cover. Perfect bound. Mainly B/W text; some colour photos.
261 pages. 234mm
X 154mm. (1st edition 2011). ISBN 9781921758263.
RRP $32.95
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