{"id":4197,"date":"2020-01-28T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T05:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2024-02-02T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T10:55:14","slug":"life-was-good-then-looming-death-approached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/themooraboolnews\/news\/life-was-good-then-looming-death-approached\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE WAS GOOD\u2026.THEN LOOMING DEATH APPROACHED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4199\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/website-2-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John and Leone Fabre<br \/>Photo &#8211; Janine Fabre Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bush-ablaze-between-the-rear-of-the-clubhouse-and-Lake-Conjola-Entrance-Road-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Remains-of-a-car-exploding-two-houses-from-us-in-the-middle-of-the-road-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4202\" \/><strong>Disaster on the door step<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Helen Tatchell<\/p>\n<p>A new, warmer and healthier life in New South Wales has been home to two former Ballan residents for the last two-years. It all changed in a blink of an eye to a fight for survival.<br \/>\nJohn and Leone Fabre lived in Ballan for a number of years before finding just the right climate and town in the small community of Lake Conjola.<br \/>\nSituated on the south coast and just three-hours south of Sydney, it is not a name many would be familiar with, until last year, when a mammoth bushfire ravaged the area with ferocity. It did not discriminate.<br \/>\nLake Conjola is surrounded by National Parks and the lake is connected to the ocean, just two-kilometres from the Fabre\u2019s new home in a brand new Over 55-lifestyle<br \/>\ncommunity.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to let our friends back in Ballan and district to know we are safe,\u201d Ms Fabre told the Moorabool News.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are well and recovering physically from fatigue and mentally from the vast devastation to so many people in our community,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nThe Fabres had been on a short pacific cruise and returned on Boxing Day last year. The trip south back home saw heightened alerts and roadblocks for the expanding bushfire, and never did they imagine just five days later they would be literally in the line of fire.<br \/>\n\u201cOn the bus trip home, it was dark, and the flames were visible. The glow of fires surrounded us on our journey,\u201d Ms Fabre said.<br \/>\n\u201cRural Fire Service (RFS) units had hoses spread across the road and men moved in all directions, attacking fires which had engulfed large mature trees.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Fabre said the experience was, in hindsight, \u201cthe first early warning of the unforgiving force to hit our area on New Year\u2019s Eve.\u201d<br \/>\nThey had become accustomed, but not complacent, to \u2018Watch and Act\u2019 alerts from the RFS.<br \/>\n\u201cThose alerts remained current on the morning of New Year\u2019s Eve and road closures were already in place. Those that had left to do shopping were not allowed back and had to seek refuge in nearby Ulladulla.<br \/>\n\u201cWe noticed smoke mid-morning over distant hills and decided to gather in our Clubhouse. It was too late to leave.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Fabre described the Clubhouse as a modern steel construction and large enough to provide refuge to residents in the lifestyle community.<br \/>\n\u201cWe had the guidance of two veteran fire fighters and SES residents who had shared a plan to stay and defend. As residents were arriving to take shelter in the Clubhouse raging flames became evident as the deafening roar of the moving inferno engulfed mountains around us.\u201d<br \/>\nNothing had prepared them for the black belching smoke that significantly reduced visibility. Some residents were not well and feared the worse.<br \/>\n\u201cFires surrounded the rear of the Clubhouse and the heat inside was intense. The fire alarms blared as smoke made its way inside,\u201d Ms Fabre said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe had lost almost all contact with the outside world. We were under-siege of an event so monstrous we feared the worst. It was the most frightening experience of our lives.\u201d<br \/>\nIt was to get worse.<br \/>\nHusband John and a couple of others left the clubhouse in 4&#215;4 vehicles to make sure everyone was accounted for. By then, one house was engulfed in flames and threatening the house next to it.<br \/>\n\u201cBy the time I got to our home, garden mulch had caught alight and burning the base to the front of our home and four other nearby houses. As I ran with the hose in hand to extinguish these fires, cars that were garaged in the homes that had set alight, exploded. Nearby to our home a car had been quickly reversed from the garage on fire. It exploded in the middle of the road. At the height of putting the fires out &#8211; we ran out of water,\u201d Mr Fabre said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe whole of the Lake Conjola community had run out of water.\u201d<br \/>\nMr Fabre said the RFS arrived and a fire-bombing helicopter that put out the house fires.<br \/>\n\u201cIt flattened it in seconds, preventing fires from engulfing other homes. In the meantime, ambulances started to arrive at the Clubhouse to provide emergency assistance where needed. Leone stayed indoors knowing to minimise respiratory difficulties,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nLittle did they know that by the time the fire had reached their community it had already destroyed 122 homes within 10km, and several people had died from cardiac arrest and smoke inhalation.<br \/>\nNearby Conjola Park lost 89 homes with the fire so intense, houses had fused together.<br \/>\nMr Fabre said by mid-afternoon on New Year\u2019s Eve when they went back to their home they realised \u201chow blessed they were.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTwo houses out of 90, and only three cars destroyed.<br \/>\n\u201cNo lives were lost in our lifestyle community. Brave or foolish we survived.<br \/>\n\u201cPeople walked about in a state of shock, some angry and inconsolable. How could we have lost water? Why was it that when I contacted \u2018Triple-000&#8242; they were not even aware of a fire in Lake Conjola? Why was there no RFS fire units in our area &#8211; they had all be sent south to protect another town? \u201cMr Fabre said.<br \/>\n\u201cAnswers don\u2019t matter right now. What mattered was attending to the needs of others.\u201d<br \/>\nNo one could predict just three days later the nightmare would continue, with catastrophic fires expected any day. Roads were clogged with thousands of holiday makers who had not adhered to earlier warnings to leave.<br \/>\n\u201cIt took 24-hours with queues 20km long to clear these coastal communities.<br \/>\n\u201cWe left after police advised that the fire had intensified in the region and no safety could be assured.\u201d<br \/>\nThe pair took their motorhome, car and whatever else they could gather in haste, and headed to friend\u2019s in Ulladulla.<br \/>\n\u201cLeone was showing significant signs of distress, her breathing impaired by the smoke, our lives more important than our home that I managed to save.<br \/>\n\u201cWe had already been burnt, the undergrowth in the forest was gone. We did fear for more ember attacks. however we knew it was time to leave. The power was out; communication almost non-existent; there were no supplies coming in and no water.\u201d<br \/>\nThe nightmare of seeing the once beautiful forest totally charred and irrevocably incinerated is beyond belief, but there were more distressing scenes.<br \/>\n\u201cTo see wildlife ablaze trying to escape is horrific enough, but to also see the vast destruction beckoned our wildest imagination,\u201d Mr Fabre said.<br \/>\nSeven days later they regained their strength and returned home. They were now ready for the clean-up process.<br \/>\n\u201cDisaster Recovery and Insurance companies have been extremely supportive. We will repair our home, clean inside, but it will take years to rebuild this idyllic community that had become our very special corner of the world. Never before had we seen so many people in such distress. The Shoalhaven Shire had experienced the largest amount of burnt forest in all of NSW. The Conjola Community with the most significant loss of properties and lives,\u201d Mr Fabre said.<br \/>\nBoth John and Leone Fabre now work as volunteers within their lifestyle and the broader Conjola community, supporting the Recovery effort on a scale never previously thought possible.<br \/>\nMr Fabre said they saw generosity never before thought possible from local, interstate and global organisations.<br \/>\n\u201cIt took a catastrophic disaster to showcase our humanity.<br \/>\n\u201cOur hamlet community featured in London, New York and elsewhere. Container loads of items began to arrive to provide for those who had lost everything including loved ones.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said this small community will rebuild with a united spirit.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are, after all, Australians,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe Fabres had one message for those in the Moorabool community.<br \/>\n\u201cWe thank you for messages of support. Your thoughts and well wishes have not gone unnoticed or unappreciated.<br \/>\n\u201cIn time, please come and visit Lake Conjola and surrounds,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster on the door step By Helen Tatchell A new, warmer and healthier life in New South Wales has been home to two former Ballan residents for the last two-years. It all changed in a blink of an eye to a fight for survival. 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