Nasty - my heart goes out to those affected.
Brings back memories: we got burnt out in the Canberra bushfires in 2003 (
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Canberra_bushfires)
Right before we evacuated, the sky was dark like night at 11 am.
As we were leaving, my partner at the time said "it's ok - it's raining... it will be fine..."
I pointed to the helicopter water bombing two streets away as the actual source of the rain drops and urged her into the car pronto...
Funny thing - we were burnt out completely but never once saw a flame.
In the 25 mins it took to drive to her sister's place across town, the house was fine when we left, it went up and burnt to the ground.
Apparently the house got hit by a giant fireball (they were being thrown from the fiercely burning pine forrest 100m from our house) a few minutes after we waved to the neighbour as we left.
After all that, I have to admit, I'm a little less attached to "stuff" than I once was..