Residents at Lake Tyers Aboriginal community in Victoria say they are safe, despite terrifying photos emerging online of a burning red sky NITV
has stayed to care for her elderly father, who didn’t want to leave his country, and has put her own emergency plan in place.
“My father was born out here. He’s an old man. He’s 70 something and he’s had five bypasses. He’s currently dealing with cancer and he didn’t want to leave,” Ms Tregonning said. “We live down by the river and we do have a lot of bush around, but we have a lake just there, we have a boat, we’re quite young and fit.”Tregonning“It was just bright, dark red with some black smoke and then it went right up into the sky,” Ms Tregonning said.
“If I was to stand and tilt my head to 180 degrees I would still be looking at the red, dark sky. Hot leaves were falling. There was a lot of smoke around. We've inhaled smoke for about two days.”
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