"You see the glowing in the distance," says Sam Mitchell, remembering the fire that threatened his home, family, and animals last week.
"The wind is quite fast, the glowing gets brighter - and then you start to see the flames."
Sam runs Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park and lives there with his wife and 19-month-old son, Connor. As the flames approached, an evacuation warning was issued. Within 20 minutes, "everyone was gone".
But Sam - and four others - stayed behind.
"You can't move 800 animals including water buffaloes, ostriches and cassowaries [an ostrich-like bird]," he says.
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