Roy Annesley was trying to flee when he became trapped in the path of a bushfire that raged through his remote property late last year. What followed was a survival mission of epic proportions | LucyCormack
In a dimly lit motel room in western Sydney, Roy Annesley is on the phone to his bank.
The 52-year-old was trying to flee when he became trapped in the path of the bushfire that raged through the region on November 8. Mr Annesley reached a neighbour's evacuated home where some of the only water he could find to drink was inside the toilet cistern. It will be his home for as long as he needs regular hospital visits for dressings to be changed on the skin grafts now covering his hands, arms, legs and feet.Like patchwork, the life-saving grafts have left remnants of old tattoos from his shoulder and ribs on his hands and fingers.
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