On a clear, spring morning in South Australia's Wirrabara Ranges, smoke was beginning to rise from between the gum trees on a slope in the conservation park.

For people who glimpsed the growing billows of smoke from nearby towns in the southern Flinders Ranges, the sight may have triggered some alarm.

Accompanying the smoke was the roar of several planes and helicopters, dropping hundreds of litres of water in a scene reminiscent of a bushfire that raged through the same region more than a decade earlier.

The devastating Bangor bushfire burnt for a month in 2014 around SA's Southern Flinders Ranges, destroying homes, farms and businesses and killing thousands of animals.

While no human lives were lost, the trauma left a deep mark on those who lived through it, and the rebuild was l

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