RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says he expects dozens of buildings were damaged or destroyed when a bushfire hit the historic Bega Valley town of Cobargo.
The main street of the Bega Valley town of Cobargo has been devastated by an out-of-control bushfire which has left two people missing, feared dead.
RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said he expected the"significant impact" of the blaze had damaged or destroyed"dozens" of buildings in the historic village. He said a total of three people were unaccounted for and feared dead on the South Coast — two"potentially" in Cobargo and another at Belowra.The emergency-level blaze has consumed almost 65,000 hectares of land stretching from the Badja Forest Road in Countegany all the way to the south-eastern coast of the state.
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