When the news of the Sir Ivan Fire first reached Nyngan, the local farmers were straight on the phone rallying trucks and fodder to send north.
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The fire, which started on Saturday, February 19, claimed 34 homes and 55,000 along with fencing, infrastructure and livestock in Cassillis, Leadville,
Nyngan farmers were first on the scene on Tuesday with three semi-trailers and a “couple of table tops” of hay for the farmers and their livestock.
“It was important to get over there early. It’s good to see all the hay coming in now,” organiser Peter Reece said.
“But if the livestock had to wait this long, they would have starved,”
Mr Reece said they arrived when the fire was still burning.
“We went straight into the fire ground, it was terrible,” he said.
Mr Reece said the farmers didn’t do it for any recognition, they did it because they know how important it was to get the feed over there and quickly.
The farmers who contributed from Nyngan were; Andrew Walsh, Mark and Ian Griffiths, Richard Bootle, David Smith, Hayden Reece and Simon Ward.
The Department of Primary Industries have estimated an enormous loss of stock and farming infrastructure and equipment.
Fairfax Media reported last week as much as 5,700 kilometres of fencing was damaged. 430 sheep and 55 cattle were deceased or destroyed. 325 goats, 20 dogs and three alpacas were also reported as dead.
Since the Nyngan farmers have dropped off their fodder, over 100 trucks from as far as Queensland have been to drop of fodder to the fire victims.
Twenty-seven of those trucks came from Trangie.
Organiser Kevin Flinn visited the scene over the weekend.
“We all expected the worst, and it was a lot worse than I expected,” he said.
“Everything was melted, homes and sheds, everything. I can handle the physical but I struggled seeing the people affected with tears in their eyes.”