Plans to Go Back

YESTERDAY more than 150 volunteers delivered 200 tonnes of hay and $100,000 of fencing supplies to the villages of Uarbry and Leadville and many now want to return to finish what they started.

Brad Smith, one of the organisers of the convoy of goods from Scone said while their charity drive was a huge success there is still more work to be done.

“Our crews worked for about nine hours yesterday and repaired in excess of six kilometres of destroyed fencing,” said Mr Smith.

“But on just one property we visited, the farmer has over 70 kilometres of fencing that has been destroyed, so there’s still so much more we would like to do,” he said.

“One of the farms we visited simply had nothing left,” he said.

“Their house and outbuildings were gone, their machinery, tools, stock feed; everything had gone up in flames,” he said.

“The work we did yesterday saved one farmer a month’s worth of work, so if we can get more donations and more people to volunteer their time, we can make a huge impact in restoring these people’s lives,” Brad Smith said.

Feeding hungry stock in the burnt aftermath of the Sir Ivan fire.

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