num_pages: 272
description: 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 experienceand also a raucous meditating horse-riding veganwas the only officer on duty in the small community of Kinglake. As the firestorm approached he was called out to numerous incidents including multi-fatality car accidents. He led a group of fifty people from a store west of Kinglake four kilometres to safety through burning bush. Minutes before it was completely destroyed. Then as the fire raged around him he phoned his family ten kilometres away to warn them what was coming. When his wife answered she screamed that the fire had already hit their property. Then the line went dead. Black Saturday was a many-headed monster in whose wake stories of grief heroism and desolation erupted all over the state of Victoria. This book is about the monsterand the heroism of those who confronted it.
language: English
title: Kinglake-350
publisher: Text Publishing