Ron Fuller has arrived at today's meeting with a better idea. Site meeting: Architect Nigel Bell (left) meets Ron Fuller and Susan Templeman to discuss building their new home. Plenty of the other razed houses were made of brick. This firestorm erupted fast and close to homes, but Harry escaped with the cat, two laptops, some family photos, one of his guitars - and his life. On October 17, a furious fire galloped out of that gully and devoured their home at 36 Emma Parade, Winmalee, and another 15 houses in the same street, which runs along one of the many ridges that form the suburban streets of the Blue Mountains. The architect is gently planting the seeds of ideas for what might rise from these ashes, replacing the home where the couple raised their son and daughter - where Harry played his bass guitars and Phoebe practised her ballet, where Templeman and Fuller built an enviable Aboriginal art collection, and where the family all loved to sit on their timber deck and inhale the bush lapping at their back fence. ''Which is about the most flammable material you can imagine,'' their architect Nigel Bell says.īell, a bushfire specialist, is standing amid the ash and ruins of Templeman and Fuller's house, just 15 days after it was razed in a sudden conflagration ignited by a branch falling on a power line. Money was tight and they built what they could afford - a kit home made of western red cedar perched on treated pine poles. It was 1991 and the couple had returned from overseas, where both were foreign correspondents for radio stations. Nobody was calling it the Flame Zone the first time Susan Templeman and Ron Fuller built on this block of land atop a bush-dense gully in the Blue Mountains.
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