Black Saturday 10 years on

Black Saturday

This former bed and breakfast was among more than 3,500 properties destroyed by the fires. Source: Supplied

A decade since bushfires in Victoria killed 173 people, residents share their efforts to rebuild their lives.


Christine Adams is reflecting on her story of survival.

“We got a phone call late in the afternoon from a friend asking whether or not we had seen the smoke,” she tells SBS News.

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