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Gippsland Bushfires
47 ImagesDevastation hit the towns of Sarsfield and Buchan overnight when containment lines were broken in the Gippsland bushfires, whilst hundreds of locals have taken refuge in Bairnsdale.
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Images taken along Great Alpine Road in and around Sarsfield.Credit:Jason Edwards
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Images taken along Great Alpine Road in and around Sarsfield.Credit:Jason Edwards
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Images taken along Great Alpine Road in and around Sarsfield.Credit:Jason Edwards
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Images taken along Great Alpine Road in and around Sarsfield.Credit:Jason Edwards
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Images taken along Great Alpine Road in and around Sarsfield.Credit:Jason Edwards
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Images taken along Great Alpine Road in and around Sarsfield.Credit:Jason Edwards
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Images taken along Great Alpine Road in and around Sarsfield.Credit:Jason Edwards
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News scenes from Mallacoota today after the Gippsland bushfires. Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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The Age News scenes from Mallacoota today after the Gippsland bushfires.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Terra Nova Drive Mallacoota today after the Gippsland bushfires. Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Young Theo and his family rode their bike to Bastion Point beach and dug a hole in the sand where they hid over night while the fire came through. The remains of his bike after the fire.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Scenes from Mallacoota today after the Gippsland bushfires.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Scenes from Mallacoota today after the Gippsland bushfires. Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Bastion Beach surf life saving caravan.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Young Theo and his family rode their bike to Bastion Point beach and dug a hole in the sand where they hid over night while the fire came through. The remains of his bike after the fire.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Bastion Point Road Mallacoota.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Bastion Point Road MallacootaCredit:Rachel Mounsey
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Bastion Point Road Mallacoota today after the Gippsland bushfires. Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Terra Nova Drive Mallacoota today after the Gippsland bushfires.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Terra Nova Drive, Mallacoota.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Terra Nova Drive scenes from Mallacoota.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Terra Nova Drive, Mallacoota.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Bastion Point Road, Mallacoota.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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The aftermath of the bushfire in Mallacoota.Credit:Rachel Mounsey
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Peter Riley (red flannel) and his son in law Simon Evvage at their fire damaged Clifton creek property. Credit:Joe Armao
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Burnt out bus at Deptford rd, Clifton Creek.Credit:Joe Armao
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A burnt out house at Deptford rd, Clifton Creek. Credit:Joe Armao
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Clifton Creek primary school, Clifton Creek. Credit:Joe Armao
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CFA conduct back burning at Howitt Spur rd, Deptford. Credit:Joe Armao
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CFA conduct back burning at Howitt Spur rd, Deptford. Credit:Joe Armao
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Clifton Creek primary school, Clifton Creek. Credit:Joe Armao
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Clifton Creek primary school, Clifton Creek. Credit:Joe Armao
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Clifton Creek primary school, Clifton Creek.Credit:Joe Armao
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Clifton Creek primary school, Clifton Creek. Credit:Joe Armao
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Clifton Creek primary school, Clifton Creek. Credit:Joe Armao
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A burnt-out car sits next to a gas bottle at a property in Sarsfield, East Gippsland.Credit:AAP
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A general view of a burnt landscape in Sarsfield, East Gippsland, Victoria.Credit:AAP
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A burnt-out ute is seen in Sarsfield, East Gippsland, Victoria.Credit:AAP
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Property damage is seen at a Sarsfield residence in East Gippsland, Victoria.Credit:AAP
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A charred australian flag lies in front of a burnt-out residence in Sarsfield, East Gippsland.Credit:AAP
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Property damage is seen at a Sarsfield residence in East Gippsland, Victoria.Credit:AAP
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A burnt out ute is seen at a destroyed property in Sarsfield in East Gippsland, Victoria.Credit:AAP
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A burnt out house is seen in Sarsfield in East Gippsland, Victoria.Credit:AAP
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A burnt-out house is seen in Sarsfield, East Gippsland, Victoria.Credit:AAP
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Marian Brandum celebrates her 84th birthday in a tent with her daughter Sally Brandum- Brown at the Bairnsdale relief centre after fire threatened their Metung home. Credit:Joe Armao
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Eric and Rebecca West in their caravan at the Bairnsdale relief centre. Their Clifton Creek home was saved by newly installed sprinklers.Credit:Joe Armao
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Rebecca West with her most valuable possessions stored in her caravan at the Bairnsdale relief centre. Rebecca and her husband Eric's Clifton Creek home was saved by newly installed sprinklers.Credit:Joe Armao
