When bushfires converged on the small town Nerrigundah, claiming one life and destroying 20 of the its 25 homes, its remaining residents huddled together in their humble fire station.
When bushfires converged on the small town of Nerrigundah on the far south coast of New South Wales, claiming the life of a 71-year-old man and destroying 20 of the its 25 homes, its remaining residents huddled in the fire station shed.A man was killed and 80 per cent of Nerrigundah's homes were destroyed in a ferocious bushfire on New Year's Eve
The local RFS captain says he and 11 other residents wouldn't have survived if the fire station shed wasn't fitted with sprinklers Despite their terrifying ordeal, many residents have decided they will stay and rebuild in their historic town Nerrigundah fire captain, Ron Threlfall, said in all his years of firefighting he had never seen anything like what occurred on New Year's Eve."All of a sudden everything just exploded in front of us.""This door pushed in and the crew had to push up against it to stop the door caving in," he said."I had my three kids in there. It was terrifying."
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