Farmer Jeff McCole, 70, sits to be interviewed in front of his family home destroyed by bushfire in Buchan, Victoria, Australia, January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
BUCHAN, Australia (Reuters) - Returning from a morning feeding his sheep, Jeff McCole, a 70-year-old farmer, paused to take in the bittersweet scene – a few droplets of rain falling onto the remains of his fire-ravaged home.
"Nothing like the sound of rain on a tin roof," he said, as he scanned the residue of a lifetime of memories scattered before him.
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