Vic: Urgent warnings to towns as bushfire flares up=2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-07-2009
Vic: Urgent warnings to towns as bushfire flares up=2

As flames erupted around the property of Graham Kinross, the Tonimbuk resident and
his wife Di Kinross decided to stay and defend their land.

"We would always stay and defend," a visibly shaken Ms Kinross said.

Flames appeared to wipe out parts of their neighbour's property, with the area swallowed
by thick, choking orange and grey smoke.

The fires at Tonimbuk ripped through clumps of woodland, and within seconds reduced
healthy green trees to blackened, charred stumps.

Elsewhere, winds whipped up swirls and eddies of smoke …