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A serious bearded man in long sleeved white collared shirt stands in front of greenery outside a brick building.

"It sounded like a jet engine just because of the pure power of it."
Burnt out trees and shrub against a backdrop of mountains and blue skies.

A bushfire-blackened mountain range with burnt trees barely upright in the foreground.

"People you've never even met before … donating feed and time to get fences up and taking care of stock,"
Mr Dark said.

Heavy smoke billows from bushland close to a firefighting vehicle.

A middle-aged woman with greying hair smiles at the camera.

A CFA volunteer in full yellow kit faces a pillar of bushfire smoke across a paddock.

"But that cumulative effect — going back in again and again and again over a long period of time, it builds up and has an impact anyway."

"Your shoulders are only so wide and they can only take so much,"
Mr Dark said.

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