A COMMUNITY radio station born out of the Port Arthur massacre hopes to be at the heart of another healing process after the devastating Tasman Peninsula bushfires.
Tasman FM was created to help that community recover from the deaths of 35 people at the historic convict site in 1996.
Now its manager Alder Thompson, 72, hopes to be able to do the same again after fires that destroyed more than 100 properties in the area.
"I personally would like to interview some of these people and just let the public know what's been happening," Mrs Thompson told AAP.
"If you hear their story you think, oh, I'm not quite so bad off.
"There's always someone else out there worse off than you."
Mrs Thompson, who married the station's president four years ago, regularly presents Irish and country music programs.
The station is based at Nubeena, where a refuge at the town's civic centre hosted 2000 people at the height of the crisis.
Unable to broadcast due to the bushfire emergency, its staff have volunteered at the centre, starting their days as early as 5am.
Mrs Thompson said one of the station's broadcasters, a 17-year-old, had saved his family's house.
"They've got a disabled daughter," she said.
"They had to get her out and he said, 'You go Mum, I'm staying'. And he saved the house.
"I think he deserves an award."
The station has a simple slogan: "At the heart of the community, at the centre of the dial."
It's in the middle of things again and the community knows it may not be the last time.
"It's been a learning curve but we've managed," Mrs Thompson said.
"When we had the fires in '67 (they said) this wouldn't happen again.
"Then we had the Port Arthur massacre, (they said) this won't happen again.
"But you never know, do you?"
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