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A NEW book tells the stories of many local residents and landholders who lived through last February’s devastating Bayindeen-Rocky Road fires that savaged the Mount Cole area.

Launched at the Cave Hill Creek camping venue in Raglan late last month, Scarred captures a multitude of local voices, sharing their sometimes harrowing and hair-raising stories that emerged from the scorched landscape.

The project is the brainchild of Raglan Fire Brigade member Rod McErvale, who enlisted the services of experienced Ballarat-based author Hugh Patrick Carroll to help tell the stories that had been seared into many locals’ memories and “needed to be told”.

“I honestly had no intention of writing a full-length book,” relates Carroll, for whom the extent of the project emerged a

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