It has been five years this month since the superstorm of April 2015.
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The storm prompted a huge clean up effort, from emergency services, volunteers and neighbours.
Strangers helped those in need, providing a silver lining to a disastrous event.
The NSW State Emergency Service Maitland unit was inundated with calls for help like they had never seen before but they werent on their own.
Help came from far and wide not just from other SES units, either.
Maitlands unit controller Ian Robinson said the inter-agency support from other services, particularly the NSW Rural Fire Service, was amazing.
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