Sharon Gatenby had a ringside seat when the Currowan bushfire broke containment lines north of the Kings Highway on Sunday, December 15.
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The popular Batemans Bay fitness instructor lives near Currowan Creek, on the Kings Highway, where the fire broke out despite assiduous backburning and containment efforts in the past week.
The fire has been burning now for almost three weeks and continues to spread towards the highway in the south and also towards rural villages to the north-west.
Mrs Gatenby and her family have been under pressure more than once.
On the evening of December 15 she videoed the smoke plume near her home and the efforts to contain the outbreak.
She said the family believed the fire had broken out near Leachy Flat in an area that had been too difficult for crews to get in to backburn.
