The Australians lost in the widespread bushfires perished while protecting communities, trying to defend their homes and fleeing raging infernos. ausfires
As more than 100 blazes continue to burn in NSW and Victoria, residents are coming to grips with the “horrifying” bushfires that destroyed properties and claimed lives.Four victims across both states, including a 70-year-old man found dead outside a Yatte Yattah home, a man’s body in a burnt-out car at Yatte Yattah, and a man’s body found in a vehicle in Sussex Inlet, are yet to be identified.MICK ROBERTSwas identified as the first victim of the East Gippsland’s bushfire tragedy.
The eight-tonne Rural Fire Service vehicle that Mr McPaul was riding in was flipped by a fierce wind gust on a property at Jingellic, east of Albury. “As you would expect, the family is grieving and it’s been a very difficult night, and I don’t think the comprehension has set in yet on the enormity of the loss,” Mr Fitzsimmons said.Patrick with his wife Renee. Picture: Facebook, 29, and his father Robert, 63, died while trying to defend their property against a bushfire on the NSW south coast on Monday night.
Patrick’s wife Renee, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child, posted a tribute to him on Facebook on Tuesday night. Both Mr Keaton and Mr O’Dwyer were fathers of young children: Mr Keaton has a young son, Harvey, and Mr O’Dwyer a daughter, Charlotte.Before his death, Barry Parsons described the blaze as ‘downright apocalyptic’. Picture: Facebook, 58, was found in burnt-out bushland northwest of Kempsey on the mid-north coast in November.
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