By Jenny Noyes and Josh Dye
Fire authorities (click here) believe up to 30 homes have been destroyed as an out-of-control bushfire continues to burn in northern NSW amid a "cycle of bad weather".
The NSW Rural Fire Service said on Wednesday morning that the fire ripped through the village of Rappville, which has a population of about 250....
Cattle in Ewingar in northern NSW, during the fires on Tuesday.
...Buildings, (click here) including the town hall, were destroyed in what one witness described as “cyclonic” conditions.
Cameraman Matt Coble said he watched in horror as the Busbys Flat fire came towards him over a hill.
“The roar of it, the speed of it, was unbelievable - I couldn’t imagine the speed of the actual wind.”
Coble described the situation as “quite scary” and said birds dropped out of the sky in front of him.
A Rappville resident, Danny Smith, told reporters on the scene: “I’ve lost the bloody sheds, the house, lost everything. We might have saved the second place but everything else has gone.”
Also losing his home in the blaze was 83-year-old John Duncan. His daughter Carol has put together a GoFundMe page to help her father, who she says “lost everything except the clothes he was wearing”. By Wednesday morning the page had raised more than $8,870....
