"I'm having trouble talking about it. Everything's still burning. I did go down to work yesterday because the insurance broker needed photos. I watched a few of our customers walking around the premises and you can tell the effect that it's having on them. They're not really customers any more, they've become friends. I know what they're going through is hard and I can't help."
"Peeler managed the Cool Stores, a cluster of refrigerated sheds. The business was established in 1917 for a co-op of local apple growers, and in recent years had become essential storage for about 85 customers, from boutique producers to established wineries such as Bress. Peeler, a fifth-generation Harcourt apple grower, was delighted that a wave of innovative winemakers and craft brewers had appeared on the scene."
Trevor Peeler managed the Harcourt Cooperative Cool Stores and spent decades driving in and out of the site. The Cool Stores were directly in the path of a bushfire that turned the facility into an inferno, leaving Peeler and others unable to save it. The facility, established in 1917, provided refrigerated storage for about 85 customers, including boutique producers and established wineries. The fires have wiped out liquid stock and, in many cases, destroyed ingredients, packaging, equipment, chiller units and distilleries. Local producers and winemakers have lost equipment and most of their stock, producing widespread numbness and grief.
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