Big fire blazes through Albany farmland

By Travis King
Updated September 27 2018 - 12:16pm, first published June 2 2018 - 6:00am
When the fire came through sheep ran to low lying shelter belt areas to try and escape the blaze but they couldn't escape it. Mal Thomson said he lost about 380 twin bearing ewes, with some that had already lambed.
When the fire came through sheep ran to low lying shelter belt areas to try and escape the blaze but they couldn't escape it. Mal Thomson said he lost about 380 twin bearing ewes, with some that had already lambed.

DRIVING through burnt paddocks on Mal Thomson’s South Stirling farm, it is hard to believe a major fire event has taken place just days before.

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