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Gary and Yoko Clist amid the remains of their burnt-out home.
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Picture: ROB MACCOLL
Home and priceless collections up in flames as...
Surf history lost By Margie Maccoll In the early hours of Saturday morning Gary and Yoko Clist were desperately trying to save their Cooroibah house from fire but within minutes their house and granny flat along with 60-year collections of photographs, rare books, historic surfboards and kneeboards were lost. Gary said about 1.30-2am a fallen candle in their rented-out granny flat sparked the fire
that spread to the bed in “one of those silly accidents“. The tenant, who is now homeless, did what he could do to put out the flames but the fire advanced quickly. “You don’t have any idea unless you’ve seen it happen,“ Gary said of the fire’s movement. “We had timber ceilings, timber frames, once it took hold there was no chance of stop-
ping it.“ Gary said they were using garden hoses before Queensland Fire and Emergency Services officers arrived and “poured thousands of gallons of water on it“. The house and granny flat couldn’t be saved but a nearby shed that houses some of Gary’s collection of kneeboards, though not the rarest ones, and neighbouring houses
were unharmed. “I had a collection of knee boards and surfboards, some of the rarest in the country and the world. There were rare books, old cameras, surfing postcards of beach scenes around the world, personal photos, signed photos from surf stars. I’m a local historian. I’d taken them around Noosa for the last 50-60 years. Continued page 4
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