Out of the Fire - and into the Pans

摘要

While the physical devastation was plain to see after the 2009 Victorian bushfires, the social and economic consequences were just as profound, if not quite as visible. Music and AFG members are playing a vital role in the long and slow recovery as the communities at the epicentre of the fires regroup and rebuild. The immediate physical impact of the 2009 bushfires was that entire communities were almost razed to the ground. In Marysville, for example, 34 people died and only 14 out of 400 buildingssurvived.