IT'S exhausting work being pregnant and a diabetic as a bushfire bears down on your home town.
Tarcutta mother-of-four Lisa Harnett, who is 18 weeks pregnant, frantically piled her kids in the car to spend Tuesday afternoon at the southwest NSW town's RSL Club, which is serving as its evacuation centre.
Her husband is on call with the State Emergency Service (SES).
With the Hume Highway closed in both directions, it was too late for Mrs Harnett to leave town and head to Gundagai or Wagga Wagga hospitals for medical attention.
"I probably should have been on a drip today," she told AAP.
"I've got all my insulin with me, it's just that I feel crappy because I'm hot and I can't lay down to rest."
She usually checks her blood sugar levels four times a day but has doubled the checks as a precaution.
About 20 people sought shelter at the club but most had returned home on Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Harnett's daughter Gabriella, 11, was worried about their horses, a six month old Border Collie pup at home, three cats, two other dogs, and the chickens.
"There's the feeling of panic that the animals will be burned alive and the house will be lost," Mrs Harnett said.
"Life can just change in a second."
The family was also looking after the neighbour's horses while they're on holiday in Queensland but all the animals are safe so far.
RSL club director Ngharie McCallum told AAP there were unconfirmed reports the Tarcutta blaze may have been deliberately lit.
But a police spokeswoman at Tarcutta could not confirm if police were hunting for an arsonist.
"It's certainly going to be investigated ... as a matter of course," she told AAP.
Mrs McCallum said the mood at the club was very tense as the fire approached the town.
She was most concerned for the welfare of a woman in her 80s who had evacuated her cattle property and forgotten her medication.
"One chap said he wouldn't let her go home tonight in case the conditions change because she's isolated," Mrs McCallum said.
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