GIVE ME SHELTER
‘LEAVE NOW if the path is safe or find a safe place to shelter.’ The text message sent by Carrie at the Country Fire Service (CFS) hits me hard. I’ve been watching the CFS website all day and Facebook posts from school mums in the nearby valley discussing the imminent threat with increasing urgency. Some have already packed and fled.
My husband Adrian is in his office nearly 30 kilometres away. Ever the optimist, he suggests the bushfire is too far away to threaten our home at Cudlee Creek. I fleetingly wonder how our lives would change if the fire raced up the paddock to our house, our life of
