Dixie’s unbroken spirit ‘I WILL NEVER LEAVE MY HOME’
Apr 03, 2022
3 minutes
Aroha Awarau
When hundreds of tiny black specks flew into and around her home in the tiny Far North settlement of Kaimaumau, Dixie Cook-Tamati initially thought she was being attacked by a swarm of sandflies.
But when those specks turned into tiny flames, the mother-of-three realised they weren’t sandflies at all but hot ash, coming from a nearby scrub fire. The Northland inferno, which started on December 18, has been one of the largest scrub fires in recent New
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