At least 18, 000 houses were destroyed and 130, 000 damaged, and more than 200, 000 people are living in emergency shelters.
For McCartney, that means helping to address the housing needs of thousands of families still living in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers or temporary housing.
Most experts recommend keeping three to six months of living expenses in an emergency fund, more if the economy is in bad shape or your job is insecure.
Its two high street stores have helped fund work which includes support for elderly people living in poverty, emergency grants, welfare rights advice and a hospital after-care service.
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In New York, more than 250 families are still living in hotel rooms across New York paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, while others are still shacking up with relatives or living in temporary rentals.
About 1, 500 people in Louisiana are still living in temporary housing, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, although that is down from a high of more than 90, 000.
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Many victims are still living in 10, 000 temporary trailers set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Importantly, what lessons need to be learned by public authorities and emergency services so one of the worst fires in living memory is not repeated with such a tragic loss of life?
"In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives, " Jeffrey Toomer said in a written statement.
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The debris also struck the assisted-living facility and an emergency-services building where 25 emergency-services volunteers were in class, according to one of the trainees present.
Volunteer caretakers, who need to be familiar with living in the bush, managing a remote reserve and knowing what to do if there is an emergency, are required to live in the park for about a month at a time, reporting on bush fires and recording data taken from cameras at the wombat watering stations.
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