<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After the largest of the out-of-control bushfires currently burning in Victoria tore through a small township, residents returned to find relics of their family history completely lost.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Longwood fire yesterday destroyed several properties, including homes and an almost 150-year-old school, in Ruffy.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Some residents were able to make it back into town to see what was left today, but the roads are still being affected by falling branches and smouldering trees.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-bushfires-firefighter-brigade-commander-tyrone-rice-loses-harcourt-home/718c8e02-4f8c-4ece-896d-529653115e8d" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'It was too late': Brigade commander loses home while defending neighbouring properties</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Jamie and Ann Laherty-Hunt's home of more than a decade was gone when the fire quickly approached the town.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It was a freight train just coming at us from over there," Jamie said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"When it came, it came. Everyone uses the word ferocious, and it really kind of is," Ann said. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-bushfires-ruffy-residents-shattered-after-losing-family-relics/4c711e51-38aa-42b5-ada6-7526fbf3ebbf" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Laherty-Hunts are nurses as well as volunteer firefighters. They were on the frontline trying to save the town when they were forced to defend their own property.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"All of our family history, like from when my parents, I got all their stuff, it was all in there, and having to stand here and watch all of it go up. That was really hard," Ann said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-set-for-intense-heat/99df6d08-5ded-4d24-a90e-1eb77a0307d2" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Hundreds of firefighters on standby as Sydney tops 40 degrees</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You feel numb like it's not us, it's happening to someone else. And then you're sad. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"And the sadness is going to be what comes over the next few days, I'm sure, you just realise how much we've lost."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We're having waves of the emotion, but we haven't got time for it," Jamie said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>And they're not the only ones. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In Longwood East, Warrick O'Donnell faced similar heartbreak after he managed to save his home with sprinklers but lost sentimental items.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Pretty shattered, because a lot of my father's tools and his father's tools," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span></span></em><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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