Residents in Lobethal fled their properties for safety in December 2019, not knowing if they’d return and find their houses still standing.

Adelaide’s Cudlee Creek fire filled the air with black smoke and destroyed 85 homes over 10 days. As the recovery rolled-out, the pandemic crept in - isolating people and leaving those who’d lost their homes feeling isolated and forgotten.

Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2019/2020 Fires.  

Guests:

• Belinda Broughton
• Hana Broughton
• Evan Edwards
• Nicole McIntosh

Credits:

• Producer: Lisa Burns
• Executive producer and presenter: Sarah Mashman
• Engineer: Tegan Nichols
• Theme composer: Oliver Beard
• Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions
• Management: Abe Killian and Sime Knezevic
• In co-operation with: Radio Adelaide

The House on the Hill was made on the lands of the Kaurna people and the Peramangk people and the muwinina people from Country around nipaluna. These lands were never ceded.

From the Embers Season 2: Phoenix is supported by The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, The Paul Ramsay Foundation, Monash University’s Fire to Flourish program and The Minderoo Foundation Fire and Flood Resilience Initiative and broadcast across Australia via the Community Radio Network”

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