Yorketown fire: School kids thank Country Fire Service volunteers with handwritten cards

It’s enough to make your heart melt. Yorkes schoolchildren have thanked their hometown bushfire heroes with gorgeous handwritten cards.

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Firefighters battling the Yorketown bushfire have been praised for their tireless effort – but one special thankyou has melted hearts.

St Columba’s Memorial School students at Yorketown delivered handmade thank you cards to Country Fire Services volunteers on Thursday alongside a short video expressing their gratitude.

The school community is banding together after some of their staff and students’ families lost properties in the blaze that burnt 5000ha in the southern Yorke Peninsula earlier this week.

Yorketown CFS volunteer Angas McEvoy with St Columba’s Memorial School reception students Alexandra and Elle and their cards. Picture: Tait Schmaal

This is so heartwarming. Kids at the St Columba’s Memorial School in Yorketown wrote a stack of thank you cards to the CFS @theTiser pic.twitter.com/gU4VnKtAA7

— Gabriel Polychronis (@G_Polychronis) November 22, 2019

St Columba’s Memorial School students at Yorketown delivered handmade thank you notes to Country Fire Services volunteers. Source: CFS

The primary school was closed on Wednesday due to catastrophic fire danger rating issued for the district and the day reached 43.9C.

Assistant principal Miriam Honner said 25 out of 84 students returned to the R-7 school on Thursday.

She said the thank you letters helped the children “looked towards the positive” amid the loss locals now face.

“In a bad situation, look to the people who helped,” she said.

“We got them to think about the firefighters and away from the damage and the fire.”

Yorketown CFS volunteer Angas McEvoy with St Columba’s students and their cards. Picture: Tait Schmaal

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The students wrote dozens of letters and made salads, which were handed to Country Fire Service volunteers at the Yorketown RSL staging area.

One card read, “Thank you for everything you did for us we are so lucky to have you. From SCMS”.

Another, with a picture of water bombers dousing flames, read: “Thank you for protecting us from the fire. We are thinking about your bravery and achievement.”