 That night we had everything sort of sorted out until about two o'clock and then two o'clock is when everything sort of started in the afternoon the column started rising and and yeah we'd done all the township protection stuff we put all the grader lines in we did all the mulching it was all in place the township protection itself all in place about three weeks before the fire even got here because we had the six lightning strikes then we knew the fire would get here eventually just how long we didn't know it took from the 21st of November to the 30th of December for it to get here and it got here in a big way all the stuff we did with the township protection plan worked we saved the primary school the Telstra tower the NBN tower the list goes on and without that yeah it would have been a lot worse so we didn't have to go and put out fires where we've done the township protection plan so it was really good it worked well there we were cut off for two days with no power water we ran out of town water so there was nothing to the point where we just had a couple of the pallet loads of drinking water in the fire station which we were sharing in town and everything like that so yeah no water no power all the elderly sitting in the rec reserve for two days with with nothing and the community all banded together and cooked food and made everyone you know feel happy and tourism wise the canine races on the weekend my accommodation was full I was happy finally getting some tourism back but hopefully we get the caves up and running and yeah we're lucky to save this place the major infrastructure that we had here was saved purely because we could you know do what we did and then get out before the fire here all those reports you hear Buckins gone no it's it's looking better than this time last year I mean the paddocks are green yes there's no fences the trees are you know black um but everything's recovering so like the cave reserve itself is beautiful and green I lost all my paddocks and everything right up to my accommodation's doorstep on every cabin but now the paddocks are all green iridescent green you wouldn't even know there was a fire here looking at it