#Mallacoota THREAD
These arresting images are from residents of the small town of #Mallacoota at 10.30AM!!!! as they huddled on a wharf and watched flames come towards them from multiple fronts.
cc: @GretaThunberg
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cc: @RKalapurakal
@brendanh_au describes the quiet at 9am: "Pitch black. The roar of... something. No visible fire but we are sure it’s coming."
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Everyone evacuated to wharf to watch and wait...
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11:25am: “I think its here. Both the bowling club & the golf club are gone. Gas cylinders exploding. Some houses are gone. Highly likely that my house has gone.”
(At 12:20pm, he learns his house & street are gone.)
Later, the #Bushfire jumped the narrows of the town's lake system and headed north to #Eden in #NSW. Light rain late afternoon was too late for many.
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What a way to ring in the New Year. 😢
#bushfirecrisis #Australia
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