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Mallacoota awakes to damage wrought by ‘apocalyptic’ fire
Mallacoota burned on New Year's Eve as its residents sought refuge, and on New Year's Day they began assessing the damage.
Locals from the coastal East Gippsland town with a population of just over 1000 – which can swell by many thousands more thanks to summer visitors – told The Age at least 60 properties had been lost in the inferno.
- Anthony Colangelo and Ashleigh McMillan
- The Age
Fritz Seppl, who spends four weeks over summer at Mallacoota each year, drove around the town on …