Fire and rescue: inside the Mallacoota evacuation
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As a bushfire hit the tiny Victorian coastal town of Mallacoota on the last day of the year, thousands of people were trapped with nowhere to go. This is the story of what they did and how they became one the largest groups of civilians to be evacuated by the Australian navy
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