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Cobargo project: How local Santa got his home back
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The only things to survive 2019’s New Year’s Eve bushfires at the home of Cobargo’s Santa and retired volunteer firefighter Dave Rugendyke and his wife Barbara were the wooden reindeer that now limp - not prance - along the front fence.
“There was just nothing, nothing,” Mrs Rugendyke said of what was left when they returned to the home far down NSW’s South Coast where they had fostered 100 children in the past decade. “Everything was black.”