Family counts cost and blessings after losing all but their home in Yeppoon bushfire

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When visiting the Taylor family's property you now pass long rows of charred mango trees, arriving at a house that was damaged, but not lost, to the flames.

"I've been involved in some quite intense [fires] … but this was one of the biggest fires I've ever seen in the region, and the most damaging," he said."Most of it is memories. It's fine. We'll get by and rebuild again," he said.As willing workers continued to turn up and lend a hand on the weekend, Mr Taylor said the support of friends and the wider community was helping them to move forward.

He even went to the trouble of laying fresh rows of turf at the doorstep of the demountable and setting up"a little beer garden" under what used to be a shade-giving poinciana tree. "It's just nice to see them a bit happier. Obviously emotions are running high there and you just want to try to ease their stress and grief a little bit," he said.

 

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