Bushfire fighters from Hunter District in N.S.W. keeping a watch for spot fires in the home paddocks at Ballineen as the Stockyard fire runs through, [17 January 2003] [picture] /

Title from caption list supplied by the photographer, see file NLA04/564.; Part of the collection: A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3511625; Purchased 2005. "Ballineen Homestead, Apollo Road at 2345 hrs, 17:01:2003. With fire running down both sides of "Ballineen", a newly arrived strike force from the Hunter Valley (the cavalry); rolled in and dispersed into the home paddocks to attack spot fires and protect outbuildings"--Note from the photographer