Black Saturday 10 years on: Sedgwick brigade firefighters recount the battle for Bendigo

Tom O'Callaghan
Updated February 7 2019 - 8:24am, first published 4:00am
BENDIGO BLAZE: Firefighters battled the fire as it raged through the Maiden Gully, Eaglehawk and Long Gully areas. Picture: JULIE HOUGH
BENDIGO BLAZE: Firefighters battled the fire as it raged through the Maiden Gully, Eaglehawk and Long Gully areas. Picture: JULIE HOUGH

IN A FEW heart-stopping moments during Black Saturday Brendan Drechsler watched a CFA truck vanish into the flames as the Maiden Gully blaze jumped a road.

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Tom O'Callaghan

Tom O'Callaghan

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