SA bushfires: Share your story and support for our heroes

News Corp will next week honour our bushfire heroes, paying tribute to firefighters and volunteers, neighbours who helped neighbours and the incredible generosity of Australians and our friends abroad. This is your chance to say thank you.

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Australia’s bushfire crisis is affecting an unprecedented number of people, striking at the hearts of those witnessing it at home and abroad.

News Corp will next week honour our bushfire heroes, paying tribute to firefighters and volunteers, neighbours who helped neighbours, mates who pitched in and the incredible generosity of Australians and our friends abroad.

A CFS volunteer houses down a fire which reached Hay bails on a property at Mount Torrens in the Adelaide Hills in Adelaide, Friday, January 3, 2020. Photo: Kelly Barnes/ AAP.

SEND A PERSONAL NOTE OF THANKS TO OUR CFS HEROES

We want to give you a chance to say thank you to those who have made a difference in a special lift-out to be published on Tuesday, January 21.

To send your personal note of thanks, please email [e-mail]

You can also share your story of how the bushfires affected you.

Read the messages of support from readers below and submit yours to be included.

CFS firefighters put out fires on Jacaranda Drive at Woodside in the Adelaide Hills in Adelaide, Friday, December 20, 2019. Photo: Kelly Barnes / AAP.

Every firefighter (paid and volunteer) should be given a bravery award. Some have lost their life (sic) others their homes and it is protecting others … the ones who are volunteers are doing it because they want to, yet they are not getting paid, their families are struggling without money, not complaining. All of these people (men & women) are true heroes — Rosann Holt

A team of fire fighters take a well-earned break Kingscote Oval after fighting fires through the night, on Kangaroo Island. Friday, January 10, 2020. Photo: David Mariuz / AAP.

Awesome gesture. Hats off to all the firefighters and emergency workers laying their lives on the line on a daily basis to keep us all safe. I salute them all. God bless them. — Nelda Van Zyl

A fire fighter resting at Kingscote oval after fighting fires through the night, on Kangaroo Island. Photo: David Mariuz / AAP Imag.

I’m so proud to be an aussie thank you all for being there for us to save our beautiful state. The job you all doing for us. We appericate it heap as. — Jess Hanslow

A CFS volunteer with a koala by their side as fire rages through the Adelaide Hills. Photo: Eden Hills CFS / Facebook.

What a wonderful idea, our firefighters are real heroes as are their families that give them so much support. All of them should have a badge that says I’m a firefighter — what's your superpower? – Vivienne Lamoureux

HEROES: Week on from the Cudlee Creek fire, CFS volunteers were still monitoring the fire and extinguishing burning trees at the turn of the new year.. Meadows CFS volunteers Reece Lorde, John Paterson, John Morley and Greg Gilbert on the fire ground at Rockleigh. Picture: Brad Fleet

Feeling proud. Much love to those who have lost, those who have contributed to save life, animals and assets. Feeling proud to be an Australian right now. Love to all. — Rebecca Newton

Federal opposition leader Anthony Albanese visits Cudlee Creek CFS following devastating bushfires in the area, Saturday, November 4, 2020. Fulltime volunteer firefighter Mike Larecki, left, who has been deployed to Queensland, NSW and Vic this season, broke down when talking about his experiences to Albo and Cudlee Creek CFS Captain Mark Hawkins. Photo: Brenton Edwards.

Thank you to all who fought the fires and helped in any way. You should all be proud of yourselves. Sending Gods richest blessings to you all. — Judith Winen

Cartoonist Peter Broelman’s tribute to the CFS after the Adelaide Hills fires in December.

Originally published as SA bushfires: Share your story and support for our heroes