A man lost his home near Bungendore on Sunday in a separate fire to Carwoola that broke out mid-morning.
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Taylors Creek fire brigade was among six units that responded to the outbreak, 5km north of Bungendore at the southern end of the Capital Wind farm at about 11am.
A man awoke to find his home off Currandooley Road ablaze, apparently started from a chimney fire, RFS Lake George incident controller Tim Carroll said. It destroyed the fibro home and the man’s car before burning through 17 hectares of grassland.
The loss was another nail after a horrific weekend. Eleven homes were destroyed and 12 more damaged in the Carwoola blaze which ripped through 3134ha southeast of Queanbeyan from lunchtime Friday.
That fire was contained on Saturday. Southern Tablelands strike teams and incident management responded to the call for help. Patrols of the fire ground will continue well into this week and next.
Emergency fodder deliveries and other help are flowing into the area. John Harvey, who lost 100ha of his Mount Fairy property in the Currandooley fire near Tarago last month, had another close call.
The fire was 2km away from his 25ha Carwoola property, 25km from Queanbeyan. It had spread to ‘Woolcara,’ adjoining his holding.
“I was defending my property and sent my wife, family and cat away and looked after the animals,” he said.
He was thankful he only had two properties, given this year’s fire season.
“It’s been quite unusual. The last fire in my area was 25 to 30 years ago,” he said.
Meantime, RFS brigades from Bungonia and Marulan responded to a grass fire in Coolabah Park, Bungonia on Monday morning.
At about 9.41am, a man was putting in a fence with a grinder when the fire started, burning through one hectare of land. There was no damage to property, livestock or people. The outbreak was extinguished at 10.20am.
Southern Tablelands RFS Officer Ian Kennerley said despite the cool change in weather, grinders could spread sparks up to six metres away.