We saw that in the fire fighters who battled the blaze, and the volunteers and community groups that supported those fire fighters.

We saw it from the local appeal started by BEST Employment, and from all the local residents and businesses who supported that appeal.

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We saw it from the residents who looked out for their neighbours and the wonderful support our emergency services received from the community.

One local service told The Inverell Times last week that they were incredibly grateful and overwhelmed by the phenomenal support.

It is a credit to our community.

WATCH: Glen Innes Fire & Rescue recorded this scene at Tingha on Wednesday, February 13

When the danger became clear early last week, the Times made sure we could support our wonderful community by making all the information we had about the fire, free to access on our website.

This is the first time we have had faced this situation since we introduced a subscription model for our website last year.

The subscriptions allow our community to support the important work we that do, and ensure we will be able to keep doing it.

Good community journalism costs money.

There are costs involved in sending a reporter to a council meeting, or to the courthouse, or to the football on the weekend.

For more than 140 years our newspaper has had a cover price. Introducing subscriptions for website access last year was a natural and necessary evolution for the Times in a digital world, and allows our audiences to choose the way they want to support us.

But when we face a disaster situation like last week, with fire threatening homes, and roads blocked, we will make sure such information that is vital to our readers will be made freely available to all readers online.

You can always trust us to deliver the news most important to our region.

With last week's fire danger now passed, we have resumed our website subscriptions, which allow non-subscribers to read five free stories each month. You can sign up for unlimited access through the website for $2 a week. We very much appreciate your support.

As ever, we remain fiercely determined to tell great stories about the wonderful people in our community.

We did that last week, as we have been doing every week since 1875.