It looks like a walk of fame, but it's not in Hollywood.
The 15 large stickers on a footpath in the northern New South Wales community of Casino are a tribute to the unsung heroes of this year's floods.
The tribute, outside St Mary's Primary School, tells the stories of those who selflessly helped others during the region's flood crisis.
St Mary's principal John O'Brien says it's known as the Walk of Flame.
Among those honoured are helicopter pilots, the SES, hay truck drivers, evacuation centres, jet ski riders, tinnie owners, the Australian Defence Force and everyday adults and children.
The tribute came about as part of the town's 40th Beef Week celebrations.
The Beef Week committee asked schools and businesses to choose a theme from previous years, and put a new spin on it.
Mr O'Brien said after what the region had experienced this year, it wasn't hard to choose heroes.
"I wanted to really highlight those who gave a lot because we should be showing gratitude for those who really helped each other out," he said.
The tinnie brigade
The giant stickers tell the personal stories of a variety of groups and people who selflessly helped during the floods.
"You think about the tinny brigade, these were just ordinary people who saw a need, jumped in their boats, went out and put their own lives at risk," Mr O'Brien said.
"This will be something that they [the community] will remember. Some of them have personally experienced that and they were taken by the tinny brigade out of their houses that were inundated with water."
'We just made it work'
St Mary's Primary is no stranger to the help these individuals and groups can offer.
The school lost all year 1, 2 and kindergarten classrooms during both February and March floods.
But Mr O'Brien said it was the school's sense of community that saw it reopen within days of the floodwaters subsiding.
"We just made it work. It was important that the kids had some sort of normality coming back and we could also free up their parents to do what they had to do during this time."
While the Walk of Flame isn't a permanent attraction at the school, Mr O'Brien said it was something the students would remember forever, as every one of them was directly affected by the 2022 floods.
