Thursday, March 1, 2012

Fed: Tears and anger as residents inspect fire damage

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Fed: Tears and anger as residents inspect fire damage

By Shane Wright

CANBERRA, Jan 19 AAP - Canberra residents were returning to what was left of theirhomes today after the worst fires in the city's history.

Families stood outside their destroyed homes, looking through the burnt-out remainsfor anything that may have survived.

Home after home in the streets of suburban Duffy and Chapman were laid waste by yesterday'sfires.

In Percy Crescent, Chapman, which overlooks a string of horse paddocks down to theMurrumbidgee river, 10 homes in a row were destroyed.

The only view now is of burnt paddocks and the charred remains of …

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