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Premium Content Subscriber only Killarney Rural Fire Brigade member Olivia Wright was just six months into active membership when she was deployed to the 2019/20 Canberra bushfires. What she saw in that time would forever change her perception of the lifesaving role. Rural firefighting has always been a family affair for Mrs Wright, with her sister-in-law Vicki Wilkinson and brother-in-law Kris Duncan both involved in the Massie RFS. But in her first deployment, miles away from home, she still didn’t know what to expect. “We knew it was pretty big but to see the devastation left...

The Year in Review continues with March and April. And so it all started... March and April were the first months of coronavirus restrictions across the UK, and few could have foreseen that they would continue in one form or another for the rest of the year. Thursday, March 5, ‘Fundraising bid for Olivia’: A huge £60,000 fundraising campaign was launched to help three-year-old Olivia Wright to walk. The St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School pupil had bilateral cerebral palsy and spasticity which meant she was a full-time wheelchair user and required additional care. The target sum wo...