A widowed pensioner who lives in a remote region of the Australian Outback has revealed that she came close to losing her life during the 2019 which devastated the country.In 1994 Barbara Walker, 69, left her life in Switzerland behind and settled 70 miles away from the nearest town, Kununurra in Eastern Kimberley - one of the regions which was badly battered by the inferno.She told Ben Fogle - who was revisiting the wildlife enthusiast eight years on - in episode of 's New Lives in the Wild which airs tonight at 9pm, that smoke filled her lungs as she was just 'lying on the ground gasping for air'.
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