Australian farmers watch wildfire destroy their home from inside concrete bunker by _KateLamb
BUCHAN, Australia - It was an inevitability, thought Australian cattle farmer Donald Graham and his wife Bronwyn, that bushfires would one day tear through the bushland that surrounded their home, a remote property overlooking the Snowy River National Park.
“We thought it was just a matter of time, that definitively there would be a fire,” said Graham, a 68-year-old with a shock of white hair, “So we put the two bunkers in.”This summer bushfires have swept across Australia, burning through almost 12 million hectares, destroying more than 2,500 homes and killing 33 people, in some of the worst bushfires in decades.
“It was very hot and smoky and the air was filled with embers, and the trees were all alight, not flaming but glowing,” recalled Graham, “It looked like Christmas all around us in a sense, Christmas lights in the trees, but of course it wasn’t.”
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