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Author Hyland, Adrian.

Title Kinglake-350 / Adrian Hyland
Edition First edition
Published Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2011

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Description x, 261 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Unchartered territory -- Home front -- Fire plan -- Neighbourhood watch -- Balancing act -- Incident control -- Red wind -- CFA -- Matday -- Arson -- Car alarm -- First strike -- Roadblock -- Fire front -- Red flag -- Coombs Road -- Scratch crew -- Godspeed to you all -- The boss -- Tanker Two -- Home fires -- Survival arc -- Pheasant Creek -- Snapshots -- Fire: an illuminated history -- The school -- Firefight in Kinglake -- Kinglake: inside the shed -- In exile -- You have to keep breathing -- Underworld -- Silent night -- Saving people -- Down the mountain -- Convoy -- On and off road -- Bitter homecoming -- Nightmares -- Bushfire brain -- Resurrection -- A reflection -- Update
Summary On 7 February 2009 Sergeant Roger Wood found himself at the epicentre of the worst bushfire disaster in Australia's history: Black Saturday. Wood, who's a country cop with twenty years' experience - and also a raucous, meditating, horse-riding vegan - was the only officer on duty in the small community of Kinglake
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Notes N copy signed and inscribed by the author, 3 August 2013. ANL
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258)
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General
Subject Wood, Roger.
Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
'The Nib' Waverley Library Award for Literature (2012)
Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
Forest fires -- Australia -- Kinglake (Vic.)
Forest fires -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake
Natural disasters -- Australia -- Victoria.
Police -- Australia -- Kinglake (Vic.) -- Biography
Police -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake -- Biography
Police -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake
Wildfires -- Australia -- Kinglake (Vic.)
Wildfires -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake
SUBJECT Kinglake (Vic.)
Genre/Form Reading nook.
Biographies.
LC no. 2011486538
ISBN 9781921758263 (paperback)
Other Titles Kinglake three hundred and fifty