This is A’s post, it captures the event much better than I did.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/marysville-minute-by-minute-an-eyewitness-to-disaster/
This is what I wrote, which I was unhappy with at the time, and which the editor, in superb tragic irony, tried to turn into clickbait with the headline.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/19/i-survived-marysville-for-an-orgy-of-ocker-self-love/
and this, which was also circumstantially the penultimate post of the blog attached to my old persona as a street press hack, but which conveyed something that actually did happen.
http://dysconnector.blogspot.com/2009/02/fire-may-destroy-but-munt-springs.html