From house party to safe house as two fires close in during 40th birthday celebrations

Updated March 20 2018 - 7:23pm, first published 7:00pm

As Melissa Benson and her family battled in the wind to put up a marquee for her 40th birthday celebrations it gave them an inkling of the terrible night that was to come.

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