A bushfire in Moyston, Victoria, has destroyed a farmer's house, but spared livestock and other buildings.
Fire has destroyed one Moyston farmer's house, but the fencing, sheds, and 350 sheep and 50 cattle were spared. Kim Marshall's heart sank the minute she laid eyes on the charred remains of her family home. The long drive up to the family homestead at the foot of Mount William in the Grampians ranges was punctuated by burned fences and blackened paddocks. But seeing the home she grew up in transformed into a pile of blackened tin and ash was something else.
The home in Moyston, where the Marshalls stay when they're working on the family farm, is one of four destroyed by a bushfire that hasThe Marshalls' farm, which is still run by Rod Marshall ahead of daughter Kim's eventual takeover, has lost between 80 and 90 per cent of its grass and most of its fodder reserves.During the 2006 bushfires in the Grampians, one of the most recent significant blazes to hit the region, Mr Marshall lost everything but his home.The house has burned to the ground, but the fencing, sheds, and their 350 sheep and 50 cattle were spared.They are more concerned about their stock than anything else.'So it's the worst time of year for something like this to happen.'Emergency services remain at the scene of the bushfire, using favourable conditions to prepare for another blast of hot weather this weekend. State Incident Control Centre spokesman Luke Hegarty said firefighters were working to build control lines around the fire.Her home was spared in both the 2006 and 2024 fires, but the rest of her farm has not been so lucky.This latest fire has destroyed dozens of kilometres of fencing, including three of the farm's four boundary fences.'Somehow we've managed to save all the sheds and animals and everything.' Ms Burmeister's husband and sons, Floyd and Sinclair, fought the fire on the town's old CFA tanker, carting 'who knows how many loads' of water around the property.She said the blaze got just 60 centimetres from the door of an old stable where she intends to build her new family hom
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