Wow, so many heartwrenching accounts are going to come out of this.
I cant bear to read the papers anymore.
I placed a link to the red cross on my website banner and ive donated money too.
I would really like to do more I just dont know what right now.
Thankyou for your replies and good wishes.
The weather is going to get hot again, we are having a cool change right now which is great for everybody.
I remember rescuing 6 horses in a fire in our last firestorm.
I went through a roadblock to get to the agistment paddock as my horse was in there.
Another owner was also there rescuing her horse. She said "im not touching anyone elses horse"
I couldnt leave the others there to burn, the policewoman at the roadblock said, "if that was my horse, Id want you to rescue it" So i grabbed heaps of ropes in my car.
The others werent mine but they werent afraid of me. they were bunched up in a corner so i threw leadropes around their necks and pulled the end through to make a loop to secure them, then I led them 3 each side. i was so scared of them taking fright enroute.
Especially across a train bridge. But they were so calm.
We made it to the last eaten out paddock which had the shortest grass in it, I left them there and the police came to rescue me as the fire had become so close i wouldnt have made it back to my car. I watched in horror as the flames went through the paddock but because the smoke was so thick i couldnt see the horses.
When the flames subsided I could see them galloping about so I knew they had survived. Their owners were all away as it was the holidays.
I ended up in hospital for the day on oxygen and none of the horses was injured so it turned out well.
We had to evacuate our house as well, so i threw heaps of stuff in a suitcase and my DH stayed to hose the house gutters down while i went to rescue the horses.
I cant bear to imagine what they are going through in Victoria.
