‘Some streets you drive along and there’s not a house that has been saved’
‘You walk some streets and there is not a single house saved’
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1/19
Brian Nunn assesses the damage at Harcourt Co-operative Cold Stores.Credit:Jason South
2/19
The fire devastated much of Ruffy, about 100 kilometers north of Melbourne. At least 10 members of the local CFA also lost their homes.Credit:Nine
3/19
Fighting the Longwood fire, the Fireys were pushed back to Alexandra, where they fought to save the town.
4/19
In Harcourt, where dozens of houses were destroyed, Stephen and Sam Upton lost the contents of their business while Stephen fought the fire.Credit:Jason South
5/19
CFA volunteer Raewyn Rice greets her son after fighting fires all night and returns to her own home to find it a twisted, blackened ruin.Credit:Jason South
6/19
Dianne Rickard (right) and her family took shelter at Mansfield relief centre.Credit:Luis Ascui
7/19
Firefighters protecting homes and horses in Longwood East.Credit:Jason South
8/19
Firefighter helicopters attacked the Leneva Park stud farm near Longwood East to protect the horses.Credit:Jason South
9/19
The fire ripped through the small Victorian goldfields town of Harcourt, leaving twisted, blackened metal where homes and businesses once stood.Credit:Jason South
10/19
In Harcourt, David Foley and his wife were starting a mixed tourism and farming business when everything but his small house was destroyed.Credit:Jason South
11/19
Ruin of Ann and Jaime Laherty-Hunt’s property on Longwood Ruffy Road near Ruffy.Credit:EddieJim
12/19
On the Longwood-Ruffy road, ranchers Mark Noye and his father, Henry Noye, deal with the aftermath.Credit:EddieJim
13/19
Ruffy’s charred community bulletin board is symbolic of the heartbreaking scenes the small community faced.Credit:Facebook
14/19
The breakfast spread Saturday at the Mansfield Recreation Center, which has become a relief center for those fleeing the Longwood fires.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
15/19
The fire broke out of control during a march towards Alexandra on Friday, where firefighters were desperately fighting to save the town.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
16/19
Trees are burning along a road near Longwood.
17/19
Thick smoke blanketed the land near Yea, northeast of Melbourne, on Friday.Credit:EddieJim
18/19
Fire crews are responding to the Longwood fire.Credit:Jason South
19/19
Wyatt Moncrieff on his property near Longwood East. The fire reached the back door of his house and destroyed his neighbor’s house.Credit:Jason South
