RUNNING FIRE: Flames raced across stubble paddocks on Wednesday afternoon as the fire came out of the hills.
WOOLSHED BURNT: The Gogobilly fire that swept towards Stockinbingal on Wednesday night engulfed the shearing shed on Mr Geoff Larsen’s property Mount Hope.
GOGOBILLY FIRE: Flames can be seen cresting Gogobilly on Wednesday afternoon among the fire’s billowing smoke
CATERING: Gail Butt, the communications and catering officer with the Monteagle Rural Fire Service Brigade, was quickly on the scene at the Stockinbingal fire with the brigade's catering fan on Wednesday and fed some 300 people on Wednesday night.
REFILLING: Enjoying a break while refilling their tanker at Stockingbingal on Thursday morning were, from left: Richard Biggin, Dennis Palmer, Tom Campbell and Brad Morton.
CLOSE CALL: Paul Wittenden, Harefield, said he was very lucky he had chemically cleared the paddock next to his homestead earlier in spring as it had stopped the fire on his Dudauman Road fence line.
MOPPING UP: Rural Fire Service firefighters, Peter Parkman, left, from Murringo and James Baker, Murringo, and Keith Butt, Monteagle, clean up smouldering fires along Dudauman Road on Thursday morning.
FIRE AND DAMAGE DONE: Geoff Larsen surveys the ruins of his shearing shed on Thursday morning.
TOPPLING TREES: Rural Fire Service members topple dead and burning trees along Dudauman Road on Thursday morning.
REFUELING: Pictured is one of the aircrafts used to drop water onto the fires on Wednesday.
Stockinbingal fire
Stockinbingal fire
Stockinbingal fire
Stockinbingal fire
Stockinbingal fire
Stockinbingal fire
Stockinbingal fire
Stockinbingal fire