Canberra community remembers 2003 fires

A DECADE on from the fatal Canberra firestorm, the community will gather for a low key commemoration service.

On January 18, 2003 a bushfire killed four people and destroyed more than 500 homes on the city's western edge.

In the shadow of the bushfires now burning at Cooma and Yass, the people of Canberra will come together on Friday to remember that disaster.

The commemoration will have the theme of Reflection, Inspiration, and Looking Forward.

It will involve speakers from the community, churches and emergency services as well as ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher.

ACT Emergency Services Minister Simon Corbell, who lives in the area affected by the fire, says he thinks people's recovery from 2003 has been mixed.

"Many people have very much responded to the confronting nature of the circumstances they faced ... in 2003," he told AAP.

"But for others the impact and the harm caused is still very real and very raw in their emotions."

But he thought the community overall had shown "extraordinary resilience and capacity to grow".

Mr Corbell said the ACT was much better prepared now to deal with "the ever-present threat" of bushfires.

The commemoration service will take place at 10am AEDT at the ACT Bushfire Memorial on the corner of Uriarra and Cotter Roads in Weston.

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