Jess and I pressed her again; "What's happened?" "Is someone hurt?"
With a bottle of water and some coaxing, the girl agreed to sit in our car. In almost two decades reporting news, rarely had I seen anyone look this traumatised. For almost an hour, we sat on the side of the road with this traumatised kid. Slowly, her story seeped out. A family argument. An angry mum. A cranky step-dad. A bushfire.
But while the flames were gone, emotions still ran high. Nobody had slept in days, everything was filthy, and there was no electricity.
Did she light the fire
At least you gave her comfort, compassion and a little bit of hope and some familiarity of normality in time when she had none. You will know what to say to her if she does ring you, thank you to you all and the police for being who you are 🙂
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