VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-03
“The noise as well… I've not really heard that before, [it was] quite shocking.”
Jon Hale · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-03
Hale described the noise of the wildfire as shocking and unlike anything he had heard before.
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