Through recorded interviews, a number of people, including CFA Firefighters from Ash Wednesday, contributed their stories and are a part of this book. The Black Saturday fires were on everybody's mind for a long time, and when talking about it to Cockatoo Community members, it was very clear that this brought up traumas and emotions for those who survivied the fires of Ash Wednesday, more than 25 years ago. People said that they were never able to tell their stories and were still hurt by this. After all those years, they still had to go through the aftermath of their experiences of the Ash Wednesday fires. (Preface).