To the people who say "Why didn't they leave?"....

[bookgirlwa]

*This* is why.

The man up the road is on fire | Herald Sun

CAROL Kane desperately searched evacuation centres in Bendigo for her husband, confident he had been rescued

Comments

[splodgenoodles]

Oh god that's horrible.

(And geez, I didn't realise it was the Eaglehawk end. The naming of places by reporters has been a bit bloody random.)

[maju01]

I dread to think how many other "Micks" were caught in the fires.

[bookgirlwa]

Me too. And in a natural disaster like this - I would be a "Mick" as well. :-(

[ravenseer]

Leave? because you can't outrun it. We have friends in East Kilmore. There was no way they'd get away so they bunkered in and filled EVERYTHING with water to protect the house.

They were lucky - the wind did not change.