It was a bushfire emergency on a size, scale and ferocity we have not witnessed in our lifetime.
33 people lost their lives and thousands of homes were destroyed in the fires.
An estimated three billion animals were killed or displaced.
See how ABC News reporters and crews followed the story of Australia's 2019/20 Black Summer crisis.
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