Australia Wildfires Survivor | An explosion, a scream, then silence

February 10, 2009 by frankls
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An explosion, a scream, then silence
For 25 agonizing minutes, journalist Norm Beaman did not know whether his wife had perished in wild fires sweeping southern Australia, after he lost mobile phone contact following an explosion and a scream.

Beaman, a veteran reporter for Channel 7 news, was racing home to his property on Mount Disappointment, north of Melbourne, talking to his wife Annie as she tried to defend their home from the fires that have left dozens dead.
"She was being stoic, putting up a fight, but when the hay and machinery shed next to our house exploded, she frantically screamed: ‘I’m jumping in the dam,’ and that was the last I heard of her for 25 minutes," he told CNN.

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