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A family s home has become the latest casualty in the horror mice plague gripping New South Wales after the rodents chewed through wiring and sparked a massive fire that burned the house to ashes.
The Ward family found their home in Gwabegar, near Narrabri in north eastern New South Wales ablaze on Friday, May 21.
Mother-of-three Rebekah Ward said the mice had gone into the roof of the house and sparked the fire, which they desperately battled to put out.
A family home in Gwabegar in NSW was set alight after rodents chew through wiring in the roof (pictured)
The Ward family (pictured) found mice flying off their roof on Friday, May 21 as home was ablaze
Rodent army ‘marching on Sydney’ as farmers fight to stop mice invading their land and even their beds
Hitchcock-esque plague spreads 1,000km across Australia, causing untold damage to the country s eastern coast
25 May 2021 • 6:10pm
Farmers in Australia are being urged to help drive away a growing plague of mice by using an app to track infestations that now stretch more than 1,000km.
They have been found inside homes, in children s classrooms and even in hospitals as they continue to spread in favourable conditions following heavy rains after severe hot and dry spells.
“People are putting the legs of their beds in buckets or pots of water, but the mice are still climbing curtains, jumping onto their beds and biting them, Xavier Martin, a grain farmer from the Liverpool Plains of New South Wales, told The Telegraph.