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<b><i> SBS On Demand.</i></b> In November 2019 as bushfires ravaged Australia's east coast, Ed Roy and his wife Cheryl Laffernis were at their five-acre home surrounded by bush, watching nervously as the blaze approached. The ferocious fire had already crossed containment lines close by at Bobin near Taree, on the NSW mid-north coast, and was gaining momentum. Ed and Cheryl were sitting glued to their Fires Near Me app when they received a call from neighbours. “They said, &apos…
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