Fires currently burning through NSW have destroyed the main setting for Seven's soapie Home & Away.
The original caravan park setting is completely gone. Long time viewers will remember the setting as the new home for the Fletcher family, and continued as the residence for most of the soap's central storylines.
"The original series started with the Fletcher house, and they had a caravan park attached, which was the whole purpose of coming to Summer Bay - to set up and run the (fictitious) caravan park," Executive Producer John Holmes said early today.
"Apparently there is (now) nothing remaining of the caravan park, because the bush is all burnt.
"The house is a stone house, but (apparently) the roof had collapsed and parts of the wall and some of the verandah had all gone."
Ironically, the writers of Home & Away had planned a huge fire cliff-hanger episode to end the current series. This was suddenly changed to what was screened last week.
