Old Bar resident Mel Rosamond is talking about the fire fighters and emergency service personnel who converged on the seaside village to fight the Hillville fire.

"Fire fighters are just incredible. I think at this point in time, anyone in the town would do anything for any fire fighter. Even the people that were on the radios and the volunteers, all of those people."

The fire started flaring up and heading towards Old Bar and Wallabi Point on Friday evening. "It was quite smoky. Earlier in the evening I went to the top of Old Bar hill to have a look and it was really alight there with bright flames. It was a bit scary."

Later in the evening, Mel went back to the hill to have another look just after midnight and the flames had eased. When she woke at 5am on Saturday she checked her phone to see social media was "out of control...it was alarming."

She said the fire at Wallabi Point was frightening. "The flames were huge. Some of the photos show that the smoke and the flames were triple the sizes of houses, it may have just been that perception but it was really scary to look at.

"The back of Albatross Way in Old Bar, back fences were burnt. We're very fortunate the firies were able to control that and they only lost back fences there. So very, very lucky."

Fire also came to the top of Wyden Street. "It didn't really get too close but it was fearful because if the fires get over those boundaries, that could have been really bad for Old Bar. "I think the only reason we're here today is that it's purely a miracle, it's for the fire fighters and all of the helpers. Without them Old Bar would definitely have been gone."

The community pulled together to help each other out, filling buckets of water, filling bins, getting hoses, everyone was doing what they could to give each other a helping hand. Local businesses have also stepped in too where they could. The southern parts of Old Bar lost power for days as did Wallabi Point. The Coles supermarket lost power and there was concern that people were running out of basics but on Sunday the SES and police brought in generators.