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| | Country Viewpoint - 27/01/2003: Liz Trevaskis, Tallangatta, Victoria |
 | | In Tallangatta, a tent village has been set up on the old grass hockey fields up at the high school, and armies of bright green men are constantly coming and going night and day. |
 | | In Tallangatta you can no longer see the hills that usually paint a bold backdrop to our town, and driving up the road to Mitta, where some properties have been destroyed and families are preparing to evacuate, you can barely see 50 meters ahead. |
 | | Even in Tallangatta, the smoke is acting as some kind of dampener, there’s an eerie quiet, except in the mornings when the convoy of fire tankers head out of town, and the choppers can be heard thumping overhead. |
| www.abc.net.au /rural/telegraph/viewpoint/stories/s770440.htm (381 words) |
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