00:01How are you Deanne?
00:03Deanne Kelly was left with virtually nothing when she lost her home in the 2024 Pomonal fires.
00:09The fire came through very rapidly, very fast, and we were lucky no lives were lost.
00:16But my strong community was the thing that helped us get through.
00:21And now that community is helping her rebuild.
00:24Working under a registered builder, 35 workers from far and wide are helping to construct the home from earth-packed
00:31tyres, bottles and cans.
00:33It's known as an earthship.
00:35It's a long and hard day, so I've been blown away by people's total commitment.
00:43Martin Freeney has designed and built a dozen earthships.
00:47He says they're not only eco-friendly, but built to survive the elements.
00:51Because of the way they're constructed with a lot of earth surrounding them,
00:56and that is an ideal sort of barrier to stopping fires from burning down a home.
01:02This home will take about three months to build and will cost about the same as a conventional home.
01:07The reuse of materials also provides a solution to one of Australia's biggest environmental conundrums.
01:14Over 350 tyres were ran full of earth to build this home's walls.
01:19It displaces other materials such as bricks, steel, timber.
01:24All those things now don't have to be manufactured.
01:27So this is our mix.
01:29One part clay and three part soil.
01:31Sioborn Buchecker is getting her hands and feet dirty, making Cobb render for the walls.
01:36I think a lot of us have come here for a bunch of different reasons.
01:39And I think we've found the community to be the most beautiful, healing, amazing part of it.
01:45I'm wanting to create confidence in this community that you can live in a bushfire zone.
01:50You can build here.
01:52A natural disaster giving birth to a natural solution.
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