A schoolteacher has captured the terrifying moments an unstoppable bushfire threatened to engulf her family's property in Bilpin | Kaubo
"Oh my god," Ms Hungerford Sheaves says as the fire advances towards them, electric pink flames licking the trees.
Ella Hungerford Shreaves and her husband Gabor outside her mother and Mr Muir's house after the fire front passed.The sound of an explosion was a neighbour's fuel tank blowing out its base under the pressure of evaporating diesel. "The southerly wind combined with the fire wind blew the water from the sprinklers back onto the walls and windows so the fire thankfully wet the house for us," Mr Muir said.
The RFS had been at the property earlier in the day, but couldn't get back to it once fire raced up the gully.
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