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The Cairns Post

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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...

by Evan Morgan Premium Content Subscriber only WITH more than 40 years of experience as a volunteer with firstly the NSW and then the Queensland Rural Fire Service Warren Kelly has seen fire, flood, storm and tempest.   But the scope and destruction of Cyclone Yasi still haunts his memories. Currently a health a safety officer Mr Warren first put his hand up to volunteer as a firefighter at the age of 16 at Sandy Point in NSW and moved to Queensland in 2005. Since 2006 he has been first officer at the Black River Rural Fire Brigade and in time of disas...