Bushfire evacuee’s agony ‘I don’t know if my home is still there’
Glenice Tune had just half an hour to grab what was precious to her and flee a fast-moving fire. Now she has no idea if her home survived the ferocious inferno.
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Glenice Tune had just half an hour to get her belongings and escape as a fast-moving bushfire raged towards her Beechmont home in the Gold Coast hinterland.
Ms Tune threw her dog Max, precious jewellery and clothes in the car on Friday afternoon before evacuating to her daughter’s home.
“At 5.30pm I heard about the fire and it was get things and be out by 6pm,” she said.
On Saturday morning her Queensland Fire and Emergency Services advised a “large and dangerous” fire was moving along Binna Burra Rd and affecting Akoonah Dr.
Ms Tune fears her mountain-top home on Akoonah Dr will be destroyed by fire.
“The firefighters aren’t going up there because it’s just too dangerous,” she said.
“The hardest thing is not knowing what has happened to my home.”
Ms Tune moved there in April and said it was supposed to be her retirement in paradise.
“There’s so much wildlife there and as I left there was a wallaby sitting in my front yard just looking as if to say ‘help me’,” she recalled.
“It’s beautiful up there but I don’t know if it will be now.”
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The professional bookkeeper arrived at the Tamborine Memorial Hall refuge centre cradling Max, who turns two-years old today.
“It’s not the best birthday for him,” she laughed.
The Tamborine Memorial Hall refuge centre has been relocated to Moriarty Park at Canungra.
Binna Burra remains a key area of concern for fire crews this afternoon with gale force winds expected to fan the already out-of-control blaze raging in the national park.
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