The 25th anniversary of the Ash Wednesday fires occurs on Saturday 16 February.
Fire Flyer will be publishing a special article next week about Ash Wednesday and is also seeking your memories to mark the occasion.
- Where were you on the day?
- What role did you play?
- What is your most striking memory of 16 February 1983?
(Photo courtesy of the Department of Sustainability and Environment)
3 comments:
Never will we forget the loss of the brave Panton Hill and Narre Warren Volunteers who lost their lives after the notorious change came through Upper Beaconsfield.
My most enduring memory of Ash Wednesday is, as a young fresh-faced Brigade Officer on a Pumper Strike Team, driving past burning house after burning house until we finally found one where at least we could save the exposures (houses)either side. Nothing in my training had prepared me for that aspect of that night.
Steve
the sky was red with dust and the smell of smoke in the air the next 24 hrs was bad .
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