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A truck driver who has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving has been granted bail to live in a caravan park.
FEAR WAS REAL AS STORM NEARED FIVE years earlier Innisfail had been the unwelcome focal point of Cyclone Larry, so when another, even more powerful storm seemed to be heading their way, the fear was palpable. Firefighter Steve Wilson has lived in the Cassowary Coast town for more than 30 years and still remembers the underlying tension as Yasi approached - both among his colleagues and the entire town. On February 3, 2011, his team, their families and pets locked themselves in the fire station - a sturdy building on Fitzgerald Esplanade - reinforcing the front door with big metal beams. ...
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...