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Heroes saved us, politicians blamed the wrong culprit

14 September 2019

4:26 PM

14 September 2019

4:26 PM

“HEROES SAVE US” – That’s the headline on our local Noosa paper, superimposed over a dramatic photograph of a lone firefighter directing a puny stream of water from a hose into an advancing wall of flame at the small Sunshine Coast town of Peregian Beach.

It’s a term which can be over-used, along with “amazing” and “miraculous,” but in this case, all totally accurate.

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