firebreaks

 

PHOTO: LUZ ZUNIGA Simon Marshall with his mother Pauline. Simon has helped rehabilitate his mother’s farm after it was widely excavated to make firebreaks during the Pigeon Valley bush fires.

A farmer whose land was ripped up to help stop the Pigeon Valley fire has an anxious wait to see if bills of more than $100,000 incurred reinstating the land will be fully compensated.

The Marshall family has been rallying around their mother, Pauline Marshall, whose dairy farm suffered damage to fencing, water lines and pasture to create emergency firebreaks.

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