When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, so they say. But what about when life gives you 100ha fires? ''Fire pies,'' rural firefighter Will McBeth said. After a hard morning turning over a scorched hillside near Dunback with shovels and a digger, the firefighters of the Glenorchy Volunteer Rural Fire Force tucked into a pastry-lined lunch cooked in the hot earth. Source: ODT
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