If you want a window into just how life-threatening the last deadly fire season was, you only need to turn to the tiny village of Wonboyn.
It’s an isolated and serene pocket of the New South Wales South Coast, home to about 100 people and fronting onto a picturesque lake dotted with oyster farms.
Many of the locals are trained as volunteer firefighters and some stayed to defend their much-loved homes, despite warnings that the scale and spread of the fires meant no-one would be likely to come to their aid.
Before the fire front hit them, the police rolled into town, and went around with a…
