The wall of fire was about 15 metres tall. At the end of one road a group of contractors were joking, and sometimes crying, while rebuilding a blackened fence, and finishing up the bleak task of gathering the dead bodies of dozens kangaroos from a rural estate. On Monday, as a thunderclap sounded and decent rain started to fall, making the wisps of bushfire smoke rising through the black trees look more like low clouds, Maddison looked up and shouted to the sky: "Bring it on". Amid this horror, there are uplifting stories - about the community coming together and about properties being saved.

Early estimates put the number of houses lost in Kangaroo Valley at just five, but residents and crews who spent Monday driving around assessing damage guessed the true number could be up around 25 or 30. They spoke of luck or loss, their months of bushfire preparation, and shared stories about those who stayed to watch the fire burn and those who had returned to find their homes in ruin. There are 22 kangaroos in that truck and that's about half of them - this is rendered kangaroo fat on my hands."

Due to start a 12-hour shift with the nearby Beaumont Rural Fire Service Brigade, Ed was hanging around Kangaroo Valley and intermittently checking his property's sprinkler system knowing there was a possibility fire would come through. "The size of the fire was awesome, I was awe-struck, just absolutely amazed. Scots Headmaster said the school was "blessed" more of the campus was not destroyed. Elsewhere, wary residents returned on Monday to pick over what was left of their homes, sifting bits of crockery and art works from twisted piles of corrugated iron. But just around the corner, slashed like a great black scar across the hills, there was a charred landscape of still-falling trees, dead wildlife and dozens of destroyed properties.

Indeed, all Kangaroo Valley residents seem well aware that the Currowan fire is active, and that it's now not far away, dormant until the next hot, dry day - forecast this Friday. This unique program is a rite of passage into manhood. The Scots College family has thrown its support behind the Bellevue Hill school in the aftermath of the devastating bush fire at its Glengarry Campus.

A bushfire which ripped through the Scots College Kangaroo Valley campus over the weekend destroyed student dormitories and staff homes.

It comes as more pictures of the destruction have been released.
The first three weeks of the program will take place at Tallong Outdoor Education Centre, also in the Southern Highlands, while weeks four to eight will be relocated to Katoomba. The Scots College Glengarry campus is unsafe for use for the first intake of students this year and it remains at risk of further fire damage. For the remainder of term one and early term two, students will rotate between the school's Bannockburn campus and facilities at Appin and Jindabyne. If hadn't have been here doing that, and if he hadn't got those trucks, it would have all gone.".
Glengarry is a six-month residential experience for all Year 9 students at The Scots College. Read more: Illawarra not safe from worst fires in NSW history: UOW expert There, you could hear intermittent cracks as large trees, weakened in the fire fell to the ground. Four staff residences, two student dormitories, power and sewerage utilities and some external buildings and equipment at Scots' Glengarry campus in the Southern Highlands were destroyed when the Morton Fire tore though the area late at night on January 4. The Glengarry outdoor education program, described by the school as a "rite of passage into manhood", sees year 9 students spend six months living at the school's Kangaroo Valley experiential learning campus without phones, games or television, supervised by more than 30 staff. I've been fighting this fire for weeks, and when I first started fighting it I was driving a 300km round trip to down near Batemans Bay. Dr Lambert said the school was providing alternate accommodation and assistance to affected staff where necessary. "We saw plumes of smoke building up from the south-west over the afternoon," he said. In the eerie, smoke-filled calm of Kangaroo Valley's main street, there was little sign of the devastation caused when a fast-moving front of the giant Currowan fire burned through on Saturday. Due to start a 12-hour shift with the nearby Beaumont Rural Fire Service Brigade, Ed was hanging around Kangaroo Valley and intermittently checking his property's sprinkler system knowing there was a possibility fire would come through.

"I said 'can I pinch one of your pumpers please'.

Sydney's NYE fireworks will go ahead. It's the same fire and now it's right here." But just around the corner, slashed like a great black scar across the hills, there was a charred landscape of still-falling trees, dead wildlife and dozens of destroyed properties. Most, while happy to talk, were worried about looters and 'disaster tourism' so didn't want to be quoted or photographed with their homes. The school published photos of the devastation on their Facebook page. Valley devastation: On Monday, a group of men undertook the bleak task of gathering dead bodies of dozens kangaroos.

Her neighbours, who lost their sheds and caravans but not their home, wanted others to learn from this bushfire disaster what it means to be truly prepared.

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