Margie, her husband, Gary, and their four children, Finn, Oscar, Harry and Romy, moved to Batemans Bay, Australia, in 2016. For their first month, it was wet season and rained constantly. Then, in October, the bushfires began. One day the family were told of a fire in the area and evacuated to a local beach along with thousands of others. The children remember seeing the sky turn orange. Harry, 11, remembers crying as he saw the fire approaching. ‘I remember seeing metal fly up through the smoke. We saw burnt leaves just falling on the ground’

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