Jarrod McInnes spent Tuesday staring out the window of his primary school watching his dad fight to save their house from a wall of fire. They were about to buy burn to the ground as bushfires still rage in NSW.
“I was a little bit scared because I was sort of thinking we were going to be double homeless,” the schoolboy tells AAP in the fire-ravaged NSW town of Rappville.
“There was one fire on one side, and then there was another fire at the back and I could see my dad. I feel lucky now because we still have our house — somewhere to sleep.”