"But what of our four lambs, where were they? I said among the fire (if our four children were dead), I never would believe God again".

"We knew we had to get everyone from the bus down onto the beach. It was getting so smoky that you didn’t really recognise what part of the road you were on".

"The other kids that got lost, that died - they ran. My mother said to the kids, “Run for your lives” and ‘til her dying day she worried about saying that".