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Memories of 2003 bushfires still vivid for Gippsland residents 20 years later

The weather forecast for eastern Victoria on January 26, 2003 was catastrophic. 

Hot temperatures and winds of more than 100 kilometres an hour were predicted to fuel bushfires already burning in the Great Dividing Range.

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