A VERY grateful Drouin West family got their first chance to meet and thank Ocean Grove CFA members who saved their home from certain destruction at the height to the terrible February bushfires.
Back in February Grove firefighters joined colleagues on strike teams that travelled across the bay to the West Gippsland area where homes were in imminent danger.
A lot of the work they had to do was asset protection and backburning and the chance to save the house really came about by luck as the crew was delayed outside the house by a fallen tree.
However, the home owners Yvonne and Peter McKay who had evacuated some ten minutes earlier say they would have lost their property without the efforts of the Grove firefighters.
“The fire had started to surround our house,” said Yvonne, “ We most certainly would have lost our house.”
Yvonne said they were also grateful to the fire crew who had rescued their goat which had been tethered under at tree.
Yvonne and Peter were so keen to meet the crews that they contacted the Voice having been passed a copy of the paper containing the bushfire report by friends.
Yvonne said: “We believe the article written is refering to our property-and the fact that night we found a scrunched up piece of paper in our unburnt letter box that had scrawled on it ‘Ocean Grove CFA saved your house’.
“We felt so indebted and pretty much overwhelmed…and we would love to at least meet some of the people concerned and shake their hand.
“We just wanted to say thank you and to tell them how much we appreciated it. We’re not sure if that happens to them very much and we thought it would be nice to do.”
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