As the town burned, thousands of Mallacoota residents fled to the beach. Here, locals describe the apocalyptic scenes, but the true extent of the damage remains unknown… There’s not a single person ...

On New Year’s Eve, thousands fled to the water to escape a raging bushfire bearing down on Mallacoota. This week, many returned. Trapped and terrified while the inferno tore through the East Gippsland ...

Mallacoota, 520km east of Melbourne near the NSW border, was the scene of a mass evacuation of locals and holiday-makers last January when the town was surrounded by bushfires. The bushfires that ...

Less than two months since devastating bushfires ripped through Mallacoota, the town is still in recovery. But locals say its famously stunning scenery remains just that and explained why now is the ...

Smoke from the Australian bushfires has turned the skies red as thousands of people were left trapped after fleeing to beaches for safety. About 4,000 people in Victoria were forced to take shelter on ...

Now those idyllic towns have been transformed into apocalyptic scenes as the nation’s devastating bushfires closed in with confirmation of at least two lives lost and other people unaccounted for.

Above: The afternoon sky glows red from bushfires in the area around the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales on December 31, 2019. Image credit: Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images.

"At that point, I was praying. I was an atheist. I was praying to God, praying to Jesus, turn the wind." What the small beach town of Mallacoota in Australia looked like as fires neared on Dec. 31, ...

At a time when many Aussie kids are heading back to school after fun-filled holidays, young Mallacoota student Jess Tregellas carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. Cutting a lonely figure ...