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It was close to 35 degrees at 4am on New Year’s Eve as Zena Armstrong and her family stood at her home, on a hill, eight kilometres outside Cobargo. “You could feel the waves of heat coming back across the valley,” Ms Armstong said. A call from a nearby neighbour urging them to “get out now” made the decision whether to stay and fight or evacuate. “You don’t argue with a very laconic farmer when he tells you to get out,” she said. Miraculously, the family home survived. However many in Cobargo weren’t so…
