It’s miraculous’: Owners say cultural burning saved their property

Phil Sheppard watched with trepidation as a giant blaze approached his beloved Hunter Valley property outside Laguna, near Cessnock.

The fire came within metres of the main house on Leanne
 King and Phil Sheppard's property in the Hunter Valley. 

The Aboriginal elder had poured his heart and soul into Ngurrumpaa - an isolated 160-acre bushland property with a main house and several huts, offering cultural camps for tourists and Indigenous youth.

Read the story from The Age - “‘It’s miraculous’: Owners say cultural burning saved their property.”