About this episode

Cheryl Kearney shares her emotional experience of surviving the Ruffy bushfires and the aftermath of returning to her home.

Cheryl’s chat with the Muddy Boots crew is really a story about shock, survival, and slowly finding your feet again. She talks through the chaos of the Ruffy bushfires — the scrambled updates, the awful wait to hear what had happened, and the surreal moment of returning to a completely blackened landscape with only her little house still standing. It’s emotional, but she tells it with such honesty that you can almost feel what those days were like. From there, the episode becomes a gentle, ho...

People in this episode

Hosts: Keith, Elisabeth

Guest: Cheryl Kearney

Topics covered

• bushfires
• survival
• emotional storytelling
• landscape recovery
• personal experience

Keywords

• Ruffy bushfires
• survival story
• landscape
• emotional
• recovery

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