Perth hills bushfire burns homes as locked down residents told it's too late to leave
First published on Mon 1 Feb 2021 16.46 EST Elaine Palfrey and her family lost their family home on Monday in Perth’s out-of-control bushfire, only finding out when they saw helicopter footage on TV of their new house exploding in flames. “Yesterday when we were inside the house, in lockdown, we could smell smoke coming inside the house,” Palfrey said. “So we went out and we saw the smoke and the flames coming towards our house from across the road. And then we just had to make that decision to stay or run.” The fire had grown so fast that Palfrey says there wasn’t even an alert o...
Source: theguardian.com