“Our life has turned to ash”: Milena Cifali and her husband Jim lost everything in the NSW bushfires

By Ferdinando Manzo / Laura Egan
Published 4 years, 3 months ago

It’s a monster; a ravenous beast that moves at the speed of light and with the force of a bomb.

Milena Cifali and her husband Jim Horvath playing music on their verandah, which is now destroyed. (Photo supplied)

The inferno that continues to devastate Australia can no longer be described as a bushfire.

There are no words in ...

By Ferdinando Manzo

Staff

Ferdinando Manzo is a journalist at La Fiamma, specialising in stories of importance to the Italian community in Australia.

By Laura Egan

Please leave some water for the animals ... just put some in the garden, somewhere they can drink it from.

— Milena Cifali

We can’t give in to despair; we must be grateful for what we have, even if it’s not much.

— Milena Cifali

Instead of pointing the finger, we must unite and act because now we, and many others, are climate refugees – homeless people who don’t know what to do or where to go.

— Milena Cifali

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“Our life has turned to ash”: Milena Cifali and her husband Jim lost everything in the NSW bushfires

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