Personal Work: Stories: The Long Season: Bushfire07

Ninth grader Matthew Wallis stands on his uncle's tractor as he watches smoke billow out from a bushfire at the Little Desert National Park. Matthew and his uncle Trev Wallis waited nervously for hours to see if the fire was going to spread from the park into his family's farm land. {quote}It could take six hours or ten minutes to head out into the paddock. You just don't know,{quote} Trev Wallis said.

 

Ninth grader Matthew Wallis stands on his uncle's tractor as he watches smoke billow out from a bushfire at the Little Desert National Park. Matthew and his uncle Trev Wallis waited nervously for hours to see if the fire was going to spread from the park into his family's farm land. "It could take six hours or ten minutes to head out into the paddock. You just don't know," Trev Wallis said.