Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aster Tratham-Webb sleeps by Comet the dog on the bus owned by the Tratham-Webb family on Sunday. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The aftermath of bushfires on properties south of Cobargo on the New South Wales south coast on Sunday. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eden residents prepare to take shelter onboard a tugboat at the town’s wharf, rather than evacuating north by road, as the so-called border fire threatened the town on Sunday. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The wharf at Eden, where residents who decided not to evacuate boarded boats to see out the threat of the border fire burning to the south. “Like end of the world stuff.” Eventually they took shelter in one of two tugboats at the town’s wharf along with dozens of other people who had fled to the water.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2020 12:44 UTC