COHUNA-RAISED Trent Eckhardt and partner Naomi Jewell made a rapid transition from holiday mode to bushfire relief work, with the experienced State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers pitching in to help in fire-hit Mallacoota recently.

They both offered assistance to the Mallacoota SES, being put into action at the town's relief centre on New Year's Day.

That was the day after fire struck the to...