Turia Pitt – the girl who had everything to live for
Fierce Girls
ABC Australia
4.5 • 956 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Turia Pitt was running a 100 kilometre ultra-marathon in the outback when she was caught in a bushfire. Turia was really badly burnt, spent months in hospital, and was told she would never run again. But she was determined to prove the doctors wrong, because Turia knew that she could do anything if she just believed in herself.
Written and narrated by thirteen-year-old Donna Peari.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story of the girl who had everything to live for. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the story of the girl who had everything to live for, |
| 0:13.6 | Terrier Pitt, written and read by 13 year old Donna Perry. Toria Pitt was a 24-year-old mining engineer when she entered a 100-kilometer |
| 0:31.0 | ultramarathon. That's double the length of a regular marathon. |
| 0:35.0 | Only the fittest of the fit would dare to run that far. |
| 0:38.0 | But running was the least of Tria's worries that day. |
| 0:42.0 | A quarter of the way through the course in a remote |
| 0:45.3 | Kimberly region of Western Australia, Tria heard a rumbling. At first she |
| 0:51.4 | thought it was just the sound from the highway and then |
| 0:54.7 | Theresa saw it. It was a terrifying sight a wall of flames. She tried to |
| 1:01.6 | sprint out of the fire's path, but it was too late. |
| 1:05.0 | She was caught in the flames. |
| 1:07.0 | This is it, she thought to herself. |
| 1:10.0 | This is the end. |
| 1:14.1 | The fire passed while Terria cowered on a hillside, badly burnt. |
| 1:18.6 | She stayed there, stranded for four whole hours, waiting for help. |
| 1:24.0 | Finally, paramedics arrived and Terria immediately recognized one of them. |
| 1:29.0 | Bonnie, Terria called out, |
| 1:32.0 | It's me, Terria! out, it's me, Terria. |
| 1:34.0 | But Bonnie didn't recognize her. |
| 1:36.0 | Bonnie started to cry. |
| 1:38.0 | That was the moment that Terria sensed how terrible her injuries must have been. |
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