00:00A heartbroken family returns to a scorched property, the place they've called home for
00:0720 years.
00:08The emotions are getting more and more, the more I talk about it and I'm just running
00:13on an adrenaline I suppose and I've been running around with buckets all night and yeah.
00:20Mr Self had gone to the shops when he got calls alerting him to a bushfire.
00:24You're just hoping that one house that they said was burnt wasn't mine but it was, but
00:29that's okay because the main thing is everyone's safe.
00:34Around the corner the path of destruction is laid bare.
00:37This is the motorhome Natasha Price lived in with her partner and three children.
00:41You don't realise how much things mean to you and it wasn't much compared to a lot
00:48of people but when this happens you realise it was everything.
00:52The uncontrolled bushfire broke out at Tupurang about 4.30 on Sunday afternoon.
01:00More than 100 firefighters have been battling the blaze which has burnt more than 650 hectares.
01:06Fire authorities say along a stretch of Nanketa Road they were up to 10 ignitions and CFS crews
01:11worked to limit the damage as much as possible.
01:15That is one of the things we're looking at is whether there was a mechanical issue with
01:18a vehicle that was driving along the road that may have contributed or may have been the cause
01:21of these fires.
01:22We don't believe it to have been deliberate at this point in time.
01:25Some residents took shelter in nearby Mount Compass.
01:28Just a couple of hairs that we're so thankful we're okay.
01:32Yeah.
01:33We've lost about 80% of our place already but there's not much you can do just stick together
01:40and help out as much as you can I suppose.
01:41The fire has been downgraded as milder conditions allowed crews to establish containment lines.
01:47There's lots of fond memories but the memories are still there, there are only possessions.
01:52Determined to rebuild after losing almost everything.
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