48hrs since the fire and we have been briefly allowed home to try and find our cat. And to access the damage. Sadly no sign of the cat. All we could do was leave food and water and hope he returns. I'd say out of our 15 acres. At least 12 acres is burned. But amazingly all the buildings have survived. As have the bikes. Lots have things have melted or burned. But the important things seem ok.we won't be allowed back to live just yet. As the weather conditions are still a major fire risk. The fire I'm told is mostly under control now. But it is threatening the small town of bovera about 10km north of us. Fingers crossed they can snuff it out asap. Temps are mid 40s atm with strong afternoon winds. Not good for fire fighters. We had a small amount of scrap metal on our land. And the fire got so hot it reduced some old alloy wheels to molten aluminium....
I know you would have been super panicking about that one. It doesn't surprise me that some metal got melted. The heat can be more damaging than the flames and there would have been temps as hot as a cylinder firing in an engine. 2000c easily. The main thing is that you guys didn't get trapped. Dam...I wish I was over there to help with the clean up.
but that one life's lessons and part of growing up.