Woman shares tale of fleeing Cobargo, backs criticism of PM

Zina went on ABC News 24 and told of her ordeal and what it was like fleeing Cobargo on New Year's Eve, it made for a harrowing tale.

"The fire hit our place on New Year's Eve at about 4:00am. It was a spot fire that was about 10km ahead of the fire front coming towards Cobargo, which was unusual," she said.

"We weren't expecting it coming from the south-west really. And we got a call to say, "Get out now", from our friends across the valley. We looked around and saw the spot fire growing extremely quickly, threw stuff in the become of the truck, and headed down the Bermagui as quickly as we could.

"We got to Bermagui and the sun didn't rise, so New Year's Eve was a day of almost complete blackness and those very blood red skies, which a lot of Australians are now becoming very used to.

"here was quite a lot of mixed messaging about where we should be, whether we could stay in one another's home or whether we should go to the evacuation centre. Quite a lot of... Not misinformation but conflicting information about which was the best community centre to go to. I think that there was... Yes, it was difficult. A difficult day."

When asked about angtry reactions from people in the area when they met with prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday, she told the ABC that those who took out their anger on the PM were expressing in her opinion the thoughts of a lot of Australians.