Family escape lethal wildfire
Footage courtesy of: ABC Current Affairs Show '730', with thanks. Grandfather Tim Holmes and his wife save their five grandchildren by hiding beneath a boat jetty in the sea as a wildfire destroyed their home. A British grandfather saved his family by huddling under a jetty for three hours while their hometown in Tasmania was destroyed by wildfires. The island state has suffered the worst damage from a mass outbreak of wildfires across the country. As cooler weather helped thousands of fire fighters battle more than 130 wildfires, survivors have recounted enduring blazes in Tasmania which destroyed more than 100 properties. Bonnie Walker, a mother of five, whose parents were looking after her children, said that she was "bracing myself to lose my children and my parents," as she described her experience of being cut off from her children and parents in the town of Dunalley after they took shelter in the water beneath a wooden jetty. At 3.30pm last Saturday, Ms Walker, who was out of town to attend a funeral, received a message saying that her parents and children "were surrounded by fire". She was later shown a photo of her family under the local jetty. "It's still quite upsetting to see the image, it's all of my, our, five children underneath the jetty huddled up to neck deep sea water which is cold," she told ABC News. "So I knew that that would be a challenge, to keep three non-swimmers above water. And with only my mum and dad and our eldest daughter." Eventually, Ms ...
http://wn.com/Family_escape_lethal_wildfire Footage courtesy of: ABC Current Affairs Show '730', with thanks. Grandfather Tim Holmes and his wife save their five grandchildren by hiding beneath a boat jetty in the sea as a wildfire destroyed their home. A British grandfather saved his family by huddling under a jetty for three hours while their hometown in Tasmania was destroyed by wildfires. The island state has suffered the worst damage from a mass outbreak of wildfires across the country. As cooler weather helped thousands of fire fighters battle more than 130 wildfires, survivors have recounted enduring blazes in Tasmania which destroyed more than 100 properties. Bonnie Walker, a mother of five, whose parents were looking after her children, said that she was "bracing myself to lose my children and my parents," as she described her experience of being cut off from her children and parents in the town of Dunalley after they took shelter in the water beneath a wooden jetty. At 3.30pm last Saturday, Ms Walker, who was out of town to attend a funeral, received a message saying that her parents and children "were surrounded by fire". She was later shown a photo of her family under the local jetty. "It's still quite upsetting to see the image, it's all of my, our, five children underneath the jetty huddled up to neck deep sea water which is cold," she told ABC News. "So I knew that that would be a challenge, to keep three non-swimmers above water. And with only my mum and dad and our eldest daughter." Eventually, Ms
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