Warwick hero recounts horrors of Yasi's incredible devastation
Premium Content Subscriber only A decade on from the devastation of Cyclone Yasi, Warwick SES controller John Newley said he could still remember the way the mood on the deployment bus shifted as the Warwick team entered a severely battered Innisfail. "The closer we got to Innisfail the more devastation you saw," he said. "You see all the banana and cane crops just absolutely flattened. Then you see all the destruction of all the buildings and trees. There's trees standing with not a leaf on them. Signs flattened to the ground, roofs ripped off homes. "Everybody is quite jovial that first...