In her decade as an emergency volunteer for the Australian Red Cross, and five years as a volunteer firefighter, Amanda Lamont has responded to hundreds of disaster incidents – but one sticks out.
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| Amanda Lamont speaking with children after Tropical Cyclone Marcia in Queensland. |
It was in January 2015, two days after a bushfire had torn through homes and livestock in Moyston, Western Victoria, and her Red Cross team had been called to a property that had been, in part, burnt to the ground.
Read the story from The Age by Casandra Morgan - “‘The daughters lost everything': Why more Australians need to be prepared for disaster season.”
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