‘Everything is gone’ I LOST MY HOME in the Aussie fires
It was supposed to be Patty Chinnock’s forever home. Echoing with the laughter of kids and grandkids, it was meant to see the expat Kiwi through a happy retirement.
It’s now little more than ash, incinerated in the 1000-degree New Year’s Eve inferno that ripped through the tiny township of Conjola Park, a close-knit community on the south coast of New South Wales.
The fire also consumed the house next door, belonging to her late husband’s Keith’s brother, destroying a cherished
