Remember devastating bushfires of past to remain vigilant

Updated February 17 2013 - 10:16pm, first published 10:13pm

To some extent, the memory of Ash Wednesday in 1983 has been overshadowed by the more recent devastation and higher fatality numbers of Black Saturday in 2009. 

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