Marie Jones, who was visiting Kinglake, where about 12 people perished, told Melbourne’s The Age newspaper that a badly-burnt man had arrived at the property where she was staying with his baby daughter, and told her his wife and other child had been killed.
“He was so badly burnt. … his little girl was burnt, but not as badly as her dad, and he just came down and he said `Look, I’ve lost my wife, I’ve lost my other kid, I just need you to save [my daughter]’,” Ms Jones told the newspaper.
A lot of people have died in the current round of brush fires in Australia. You can read all you want to know about them here.