A Real Burning issue – One year After Black Tuesday.

On Monday the 10th of January 2005, I was going through North Shields when I saw smoke in the sky a long way off, and thinking ‘I wonder where that is’, and also that I probably end up hearing were it was a few days after the Fire was put out. Probably just some grass fire somewhere.

On Wednesday the 12th, I was going through North Shields again, but everything had changed.

The Black Tuesday Fires affected everyone in the area, while my parent’s were some of the lucky one’s however, all they lost was a stubble paddock, and the fence’s around three sides of said paddock. But that luck was only because of the fire breaks a neighbour put around his place and a small fire fighter tank my father bought a month earlier.

Everyone in the area knew of someone that was affected by the Fire’s, I even knew in passing one of the people who died – and there’s no real way to describe what you feel after something like that, However after the fire’s I wrote a small line at the bottom of my Fan Fiction profile - it’s not there anymore - but it sums what happened afterwards:

A Fire may burn and destroy – But we will always rise and rebuild from the ashes.