John Nayler from Deja vu Magazine speaks with Mary Howarth from BlazeAid in Moruya NSW.

BlazeAid started back in 2009 with Kevin and Rhonda Butler, who were farmers, became victims of the Black Saturday fires. The Black Saturday fires were a series of bushfires that either ignited or were already burning across Victoria in February 2009, and are among Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters.  173 people were killed, 120 in the Kinglake area alone. Another 414 people were injured. More than 450,000 hectares had burned and 3500 buildings including more than 2000 houses destroyed. The RSPCA estimated that up to one million wild and domesticated animals died in the disaster.

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