Guardian Australia’s photographer-at-large, Mike Bowers, sends back
footage from Yaouk Road, north of the New South Wales town of Adaminaby,
as a fire front approaches on Saturday afternoon. He’s with reporter
Michael McGowan, who says: ‘For the past hour here near Adaminaby it’s
felt like midnight. We just stood and watched as two separate fires came
over the ridge at almost exactly the same time. It’s blazing at the top
of the hill now, long columns of fire spreading out in front of us. A
team of about five tankers followed not long after the fire appeared
over the mountain, retreating down the slope towards a property that
they’re trying to protect at the bottom of this steep hill. There were
other properties further into the national park that the fire crews we
spoke to earlier were worried about. We don’t know what’s happened to
them. There’s debris and ash falling around us everywhere, and the wind
is still howling’
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