House Fire Geurie

Cass and Stuart Bryant in Geurie where their home was destroyed by fire. Dubbo Daily Liberal 11th September 2023.

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00:00 So Stu actually saw the smoke and he sort of alerted me to it.

00:04 And then when I came in from the back room to see what was happening,

00:10 he was running into the hose and there was a fire and the house was full of smoke.

00:14 And then nothing.

00:17 And then he went to go to the hose on the fire and it was just too big and

00:21 everything was gone. It was gone. And the smoke,

00:24 the house was full of smoke by then.

00:25 And we went out at the door and I called Triple O.

00:30 And by the time the fire had got here, it was just the whole house was engulfed.

00:34 The roof collapsed. Just everything was gone.

00:39 We were in our pajamas. We have three cars with no car keys.

00:43 We have no shoes on our feet. We had no jumpers, everything,

00:48 our identification, our wallets, his phone.

00:52 I had my phone in my hand. That was it. That was all we had.

00:57 Everything we had been here for three years.

01:00 We've worked really hard to get where we are and everything is gone.

01:02 When I noticed the smoke, I went and investigated,

01:07 I opened the door and it was really,

01:10 the heat was too much then.

01:12 And I thought I'd grab the hose and try to put it out.

01:17 But by the time I got back in, it was just too big.

01:19 And the smoke was filling up the house.

01:21 Me and my family were the first priority to get out.

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