‘Some streets you drive along and there’s not a house that has been saved’
‘Some streets you drive along and there’s not a house that has been saved’
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Brian Nunn assesses the damage to the Harcourt Cooperative Cool Stores.Credit:Jason South
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Fire devastated much of Ruffy, about 100 kilometres north of Melbourne. At least 10 members of the local CFA also lost their homes.Credit:Nine
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Fireys tackling the Longwood blaze were pushed back to Alexandra, where they fought to save the town.
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In Harcourt, where dozens of homes were destroyed, Stephen and Sam Upton lost their contents of their business while Stephen was out fighting the fire.Credit:Jason South
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CFA volunteer Raewyn Rice greets her son after fighting fires all night and returning to her own home to find it was a twisted, blackened ruin.Credit:Jason South
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Dianne Rickard (right) and her family sheltered at the Mansfield relief centre.Credit:Luis Ascui
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Firefighters protecting homes and horses in Longwood East.Credit:Jason South
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Firefighting helicopters swooped in protect horses and at Leneva Park stud, near Longwood East.Credit:Jason South
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Fire ripped through the tiny central Victorian goldfields town of Harcourt, leaving twisted, blackened metal where homes and business once stood.Credit:Jason South
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In Harcourt, David Foley and his wife were building a mixed tourism and farming business when everything but his tiny home was destroyed.Credit:Jason South
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The ruin of Ann and Jaime Laherty-Hunt’s property on Longwood Ruffy Road, near Ruffy.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Along the Longwood-Ruffy road, farm owners Mark Noye and his father Henry Noye deal with the aftermath.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Ruffy’s charred community noticeboard is emblematic of the heartbreaking scenes confronting the small community.Credit:Facebook
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The breakfast spread on Saturday at the Mansfield Recreation Centre, which has become a relief centre for those fleeing the Longwood fires.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Fire burning out of control on its march towards Alexandra on Friday, where firefighters fought desperately to save the town.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Trees burn along a road near Longwood.
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Thick smoke covers the landscape near Yea, north-east of Melbourne, on Friday.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Fire crews attacking the Longwood fire.Credit:Jason South
