Philippine Honorary Consul General to Victoria Raul Hernandez confirmed that at least two Filipino-Australians perished in the wildfires that had sprung up in numerous Australian states.
Filipino-Australians sister and brother Melanee Hermocilla, 23, and Jaeson Hermocilla, 21, were house-sitting a Yarra Glen house when they died. Melanee’s boyfriend Greg Lloyd (22 yrs) also died in the same fire.
Greg’s parents were on holidays and the three young people were house-sitting the house of Greg’s parents when the bushfire spread very quickly.
Melanee is a graduating Law student of
The two are among the more than 170 people whose lives had been taken by the raging inferno which engulfed entire towns in a natural calamity that is believed to be one of the worst-ever in
The wildfires started due to the soaring summer temperatures which had caused combustion in parched areas of
The information regarding the Filipino victims had already been relayed to the