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>> Heading: Understand Insurance >> Peter: I’ve been a farmer who grows here
in the Glennmaggie area all my life, over 70 years. My family was in the CFA before
that, father and grandfather, started off as ordinary firemen till I retired as captain.
I was woken up at 3 o’clock in the morning, in my house - the fire had come out of the
bush, so I immediately came straight out of the station. We had our hands full here, nothing
could be done as far as saving the house went. Later in the afternoon when things quieted
down, I left here, and went up there, it would’ve been about 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
[1st Minute] Peter: The house had been insured all my life,
but I let it go last October, didn’t insure it, and there you are, I got burnt down on
the 18th of January.
I didn’t think we’d get burnt out where we were. A few big fires have come through
there, but they’ve all gone around us, but unfortunately this one didn’t. The total
value of what I lost with the sheds, and all of the equipment, and tools outside, was valued
at $100,000.
Well I was devastated, naturally.
>> Heading: Peter’s insurance tips Peter: My advice to anybody who’s got property,
it to insure it to the maximum, as much as they can afford, because you never know when
it’s going to get burnt down.