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Esperance community reflects on lasting effects of deadly fires five years on
Driving down the highway towards Esperance, on Western Australia’s south coast, travellers pass the blackened trees lining the roadside — stark reminders of the fires that devastated the region five years ago.
Key points:
- Five years ago Kym Curnow, Thomas Butcher, Julia Kohrs-Lichte and Anna Winther lost their lives in the Esperance fires
- Tom Curnow says he he still feels supported by the community years after his dad’s passing
- Esperance chief bushfire control officer Ashley Stewart says farmers are better prepared to fight fires now
For some, those reminders conjure painful memories of the horror that struck the community on November 17, 2015, when bushfires took the lives of local farmer Kym Curnow, and backpackers Thomas Butcher, Anna…
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