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Melissa Meehan and Mibenge Nsenduluka

Ash Wednesday firefighting heroes honoured 40 years on

Firefighters killed in the Ash Wednesday blazes are being honoured at a ceremony marking 40 years. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

It's been 40 years since the Ash Wednesday bushfires swept Australia's southeast to create one of the country's worst fire days.

Hundreds have gathered in Cockatoo, in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges, to commemorate the occasion and remember those lost in the fires.

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