<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/40dfa0a2-cd0b-431e-8c95-668890bb6ec3/DC45CC61-8BEF-4DE2-8937-BFD68DAC6924/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05.htm"><table background="" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><TD id="pgraphA" width="100%"><SPAN><IMG height="137" hspace="0" src="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/images/chStory05.jpg" width="199" align="top" vspace="0" border="2" /><BR /><B><FONT size="2">THE CLEAN-UP: Victor Handcock looks over the pile of rubbish and ashes that used to be his garage. </FONT></B></SPAN><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size="2">Written by <B>SALLY EVANS</B>.</FONT> <P>BACK burning has helped bring the Tatong bushfires under control.</P><P>About 100 hectares were burnt in the Whisky Creek area by Department of Sustainability and Environment staff as part of the back burning effort last weekend.</P><P>The burn has provided greater protection to the community and assets, including pine plantations, if the fire flared up and made a run at containment lines.</P><P>The Tatong fire, which originated 20km south east of Benalla near Tatong, has burnt more than 33,000 hectares.</P><P>Still counting the costs of the terrifying blaze are Myrrhee couple, Leona and Victor Handcock.</P><P>The fires came within metres of the Handcock home and destroyed the nearby garage.</P><P>But the couple was able to avoid any further damage with the help of the Flanigan family and Moyhu, Greta and Myrrhee fire brigades. </P></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05.htm"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC45CC61-8BEF-4DE2-8937-BFD68DAC6924/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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