Residents flee, desperately try to protect homes as Abermain blaze takes hold

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00:32 -Roz. -Roz.

00:33 -Okay, Roz, do you live around here? -I live in Alfred Avenue.

00:37 -And how's your house? -Don't know, mate.

00:39 -We've just been evacuated. -Yeah.

00:41 -What was it like when you left? -Horrendous.

00:44 -Yeah, how close was the fire? -Across the road, it was lapping their fence.

00:48 Yeah, alright. So you don't know whether your house is there or not.

00:52 -But it must be a pretty gut-wrenching feeling. -Yep.

00:56 -How long have you lived there for? -Seven years.

00:58 -Yeah, okay. So new house? -Not old house, it's been renovated.

01:03 -Yeah, okay. -So yeah.

01:04 -Have fires come close before? -I believe quite a few years before my time.

01:10 -Yeah. -But yeah, I've been down here in the fires, but nothing like this.

01:14 -No.

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