The Burnt Half | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
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00:00 You know what, this is the thing that amazes me.
00:05 The actual shithouse has exploded.
00:07 Pretty much the worst day of your life really, looking at a tsunami of fire coming straight
00:34 at you.
00:35 Just horrendous conditions.
00:37 And there was no one saving the livestock.
00:40 You couldn't see, it was just as dark as the inside of a dog.
00:44 Like the bottom of flames and it's just burning across the trees and you cannot breathe.
00:49 CFS have got rules and regulations and they don't really apply because you're not going
00:53 to go to sleep when your mates house is under fire.
00:59 Yeah of course I can remember what it looked like.
01:07 I lost, me shed, probably one and a half million dollars worth of machines, my house.
01:16 This is a Makita drill.
01:22 It's hard, there was nearly a dream here.
01:28 It's mostly been wiped out now.
01:32 Nothing left mate.
01:34 Not a cracker.
01:39 Do you start up again or not?
01:42 Yeah, there's definitely people you worry about.
01:46 Those people are hurting.
01:47 They're really hurting.
01:49 To see people come in so torn and so proud is really quite heart wrenching.
01:55 It's been the hardest thing to see.
02:00 The marks on the road where two people died.
02:03 Hey look mate, I am fucked.
02:17 Once a park catches fire it's very hard to stop.
02:20 Look we did the best we could on the day.
02:22 Both of them had the opportunity out of days when the grain were there to put it out.
02:26 We need to get to the truth of what really happened.
02:29 I hope lessons are learned out of this.
02:32 It's only 13 years ago that all the national parks burned and here we are again.
02:36 You go along and make too many mistakes forward all the way, there's not going to be anything
02:40 to pick up later on.
02:42 You cannot stop fires with the climate that we have.
02:48 That would be the scariest thing looking forward.
02:50 It would be its ability to create divides within the community and affect friendships.
02:55 It is so wrong.
02:58 I just don't understand.
03:01 The whole community of Kangaroo Island has been shaken to the core from this and the
03:07 ripple effect from this will go for years.
03:13 What do I do now?
03:13 [Music]
03:20 (electronic music)