THE fear and desperation of one Australian family's escape from the horror of a wildfire has been captured in these dramatic images.
Tammy Holmes and her five grandchildren huddled beneath a jetty as flames roared about them, and the children's mother, Bonnie Walker, said she feared she had lost her family to the bush fire.
Her five children, aged from two to 11, were with her parents in Dunalley, a coastal town in Tasmania ravaged by fire, and Mrs Walker was cut off from her family as the fire spread.
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