"We got out of the car very quick because the car was pivoting, the car was like a seesaw, it was rocking back and forth,"he said.
"The 1967 bushfire disaster was still in peoples' minds, and the new crisis triggered off emotionally charged recollections of their past experiences."
"Because it was a couple of hours we were in that queue, you're looking here and there, you were looking how the women are dressed, how the men are dressed,"she said.
"I had nightmares for a while,"Frank Manley said.