Australian family takes refuge beneath jetty to avoid wildfires
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In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes, (second from left) and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, (from left to right) four-year-old Esther Walker, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
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In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes, (second from left) and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, (from left to right) four-year-old Esther Walker, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, prepare to enter the water to take refuge with their grandparents under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
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In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, a building burns near a jetty where Tim and Tammy Holmes attempt to shelter their five grandchildren as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
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In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
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In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes, (second from left) and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, (from left to right) four-year-old Esther Walker, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes, (second from left) and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, (from left to right) four-year-old Esther Walker, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes, (second from left) and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, (from left to right) four-year-old Esther Walker, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, prepare to enter the water to take refuge with their grandparents under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, a building burns near a jetty where Tim and Tammy Holmes attempt to shelter their five grandchildren as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
In this Jan 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes, (second from left) and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, (from left to right) four-year-old Esther Walker, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. -- PHOTO: AP
Images from Tasmania, Australia, where a family's harrowing escape from wildfires was captured up close by grandfather Tim Holmes. They had to take refuge beneath a jetty while houses burned down around them.
