‘It was calm … and then just hectic’: David Rigby couldn’t escape the Longwood bushfire so faced the inferno
- Posted on January 11, 2026
- By The Guardian
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‘It was calm … and then just hectic’: David Rigby couldn’t escape the Longwood bushfire so faced the inferno

Rigby saved his Yarck home, but many were lost. Another resident says: ‘No one actually knows how bad it is. So many livestock are dead’