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Listen to Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- We totally reassured each other that there would not be a problem - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- We had to turn into the ocean road, and it was already packed with cars - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- It is not only that it looks like a moonscape, it is that you are on foreign territory - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- My father said he felt humility for the first time - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- The hall became the centre of the community - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- If there is possibility in nature there is possibility here - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- I have realised it will never go away - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
- FULL STORY - Barbara Hammond & Chris Ryan
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Barbara’s parents were residents of Aireys Inlet, near whom she had built an illegal cabin on a bush block with her partner Chris. Barbara believed the Painkalak valley would provide a fire break that would spare Aireys Inlet and was suprised to be evacuated and be forced to experience a harrowing drive to Geelong with her mother.
Chris and Barbara came back the next day to assess the extent of the damage, and they also had to confront the loss of her parent’s precious work and property. The community response fortified Barbara and Chris’s faith in people coming together during a crisis.
