 Malakuta was impacted by the 2019-2020 fires quite severely. We lost approximately 115 homes. No lives were lost, fortunately. Hi, I'm Tracy Johnston. I'm the captain of Malakuta Fire Brigade in Far East Gippsland. Lived in Malakuta for 30 years now. The fire started out on the banana track. Three days later, it impacted Malakuta at approximately 8.30 in the morning. The impact on the community was great. We had a lot of tourists. It's our busiest time of year. It was approximately maybe up to 9,000 to 10,000 people in town. We were very lucky to have three strike teams make it into Malakuta. Prior to that, we didn't have many members on the ground available. We're a small brigade. We had the Defence Force step in. They were airlifting food, water and other supplies. We had the HMAS Chills come and evacuate tourists and elderly members of the town out. The rebuilding has been progressing really well and I understand approximately 75 to 80% of the homes have been rebuilt. There's still those scars of driving past your old place or your old block. And I think the healing process is going to take a long time. The learnings that have come out of the 1920 bushfires, for us, I feel perhaps it's a bit of fuel reduction processes. Here in Malakuta, we have the Fuel Management Group and they've been very proactive of fire suppression through mulching, back burning and clearing, just to help with the ecology of the environment as well. My community messaging is that everybody tidy up their yard, keep everything tidy. It's a statistic that 25% of houses burned during bushfire is because of all the clutter and refuse collected up in yards over time.