Dairy farmer Rob Miller has endured four fires and three floods in a year. The first blaze came on New Year’s Eve. “We were prepared, but I don’t think anyone could have prepared for last summer,” he told AAP from his Milton farm on the NSW South Coast 12 months on. He and his partner’s home and major infrastructure survived, but about 75 percent of their land was razed. “It was like a lunar landscape after the fire went through,” Miller said. What remained burned when the next fire hit on January 4. Another one came six days later, a flare up from a nearby rainforest blaze. The fourth swept through Miller’s property on January 23. “My partner thought she was going to die on more than once occasion,” Miller said. They had 1000 milking cows that went hungry because the fires stopped feed coming in. “We had them on …
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