Colin and Lorna Shapland's home is one of six lost to the Hill End inferno, sparked by lightning more than a week ago and scorching more than 18,000 hectares.
Lorna and Colin Shapland have been left homeless and are now staying at a Mudgee motel.abc.net.au/news/hill-end-fire-toll-homes-destroyed-sheep-euthanased/102086476Colin Shapland describes the home he and wife Lorna built as "heaven", but now the couple in their 80s have been left homeless after it was destroyed by the Alpha Road Tambaroora bushfire in the NSW Central West.
Many surviving livestock are now free roaming because the fences have burned or been cut by graders building containment lines. It means his income has evaporated and he will be forced to sell stock sooner than he planned, at a time when prices have dropped."It's going to be a big job now keeping the sheep going and the cattle going. I'm going to have to do a lot of feeding to keep them going until rain comes," Mr Price said.He said replacing around 20 kilometres of fencing would be a costly but essential priority."Hope it's a one-off.
Nationals MPs Dugald Saunders and Deputy Premier Paul Toole represent the areas but government assistance is yet to be announced.The blackened paddocks stretch for kilometres, sometimes broken up by tracks made during firefighting.The bushfire is now contained, though the NSW Rural Fire Service is expecting conditions to deteriorate again on Thursday.
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