'It was left to local heroes': How brave locals saved their small town from the fires
Hundreds spent the day huddled at the beach as bushfires struck the small town of MaluaResidents have become frustrated at the lack of information about upcoming conditionsInstead he spent the day watching it burn to the ground.
The little town is just one of many devastated by bushfires which tore though the New South Wales South Coast on Tuesday. Hundreds of residents and tourists spent the day huddled on the nearby beach — the only way to escape the flames."I was putting out spot fires, there were spot fires everywhere," he said.
"There would have been three [of us] ... running around like headless chooks trying to put out the spotties."I found a good long hose and took that to the next place, and the next place, and threw it in the back of the car, I kept running around with it. "Seeing all the wildlife was the hard part, there were birds dropping out of the sky with no wings, their feathers had been stripped off."
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