Buxton

The remains of a polyethylene water tank in Buxton following the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. The ruins of our mud-brick house in Buxton following the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. Supplies being brought in to feed stock following the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. Aluminium furniture melted and re-set as pools after the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. Heat damage to corrugated steel roofing at our house in Buxton following the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. Discoloration of corrugated steel following the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009. Broken pottery at an artist's studio on south Cathedral Lane in Buxton in the aftermath of the 2009 bushfires. Aluminium furniture melted and re-set as pools after the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.  Aluminium has a melting point of 660°C. Burnt timber in the arched window at our house in Buxton. Burnt trees in the haze caused by the 2009 bushfires in Victoria.


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Photos of our house in Buxton following the 2009 bushfires. The house had been built out of timber and mudbrick by my family and friends over a period of roughly 20 years. On Saturday the 7th of February 2009 a fire that began at a Mill in Murrundindi swept through the towns of Taggerty, Buxton and Marysville destroying hundreds of homes and killing 40 people.