This personal account remembering the 1965 Longwood bushfire tragedy was first published by The Euroa Gazette in January 2015.
It has been reprinted as the 60th anniversary of the tragedy approaches.
By JANE RANKEN, with Bill and Dick Ranken, Avenel
I WILL never forget our Black Sunday, January 17, 1965, when we lost everything but the house in the Longwood fire – the cottage, all the sheds ...
