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'I left thinking the house was gone': Hunter coalfields towns at fire front

By Nick Bielby and Max McKinney
Updated November 13 2019 - 9:06am, first published November 12 2019 - 9:00pm
Pictures: Simone De Peak and Marina Neil

A Hunter man says he feels like he "won the lotto" not to have lost his house when an out-of-control bushfire ripped through his hometown.

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