Comboyne fires | devastated couple hope to rebuild

Letitia Fitzpatrick
Updated September 28 2017 - 3:18pm, first published September 27 2017 - 12:00pm
Devastated: Jason and Loretta Boyes have lost everything in the bushfire on their property in Comboyne.  Loretta is being treated for breast cancer.
Devastated: Jason and Loretta Boyes have lost everything in the bushfire on their property in Comboyne. Loretta is being treated for breast cancer.

Loretta Boyes was in Sydney being treated for breast cancer when she and her husband, Jason heard the terrible news that their home near Comboyne had been engulfed by fire.

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Letitia Fitzpatrick

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Senior journalist, Wauchope Gazette

Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.

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