"There was a saucepan and a kettle, but everything else around it was burned. It looked so awful because it made you think, what were they going to have for tea?".

"They wrapped us up in blankets, and they shouldn’t have done that. It was unbelievable, just sitting there, watching the skin curl off your body".

"Every summer you would start to think, is this going to be the year you lose absolutely everything, because it's part of you, the fabric of your life, that's been destroyed".

"It's an eerie feeling when you wake up and you're still here, but there are a lot of others gone. At Tanjil Bren there was a family. They were burned in the fire.