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Cruel way Perth family learnt they had lost their home in raging fire

The family were left with just the ‘clothes on their back’.

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A Parkerville mum has described how she learnt her family had lost everything to a fire, after being sent news footage of her home succumbing to the inferno. 

Dad who died fighting house fire made 'ultimate sacrifice'

‘He will not be forgotten.’

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Michael Kidd, 51, died on December 12 after being hit by a falling wooden beam while fighting a blaze that engulfed a house in Grose Vale, in Sydney’s outer northwest.

Two homes destroyed by Parkerville fire as cause of blaze revealed

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Heartbreaking images have emerged from a major Perth blaze.

Fire-threatened WA town told to flee to the ocean

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Lives and homes are under threat from a fast-moving bushfire in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region. 

'Erratic' bushfire threatens homes as residents shelter

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A large out-of-control bushfire in northwest NSW remains at emergency warning level. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Loved ones of fallen firefighters share grief on anniversary of accident: ‘Like hell’

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The men killed were both fathers to children aged under two at the time — O’Dwyer (right) to daughter Charlotte and Keaton (left) to son Harvey.