Bec Winter fled her home on horseback when fires came dangerously close to her home at Rosedale, near Moruya on the New South Wales Far South Coast, on New Year's Eve.
When she returned to the property on Friday, January 3, she found her shed robbed, with the thieves making off with mowers, a leaf blower, chainsaws, her son's bike, and even the pump off her water tank, and all as the surrounding bush still smouldered.
But it was about to get worse — when Ms Winter came back again on Monday with a forensic police officer she found the property looted again, with the thieves this time forcing their way inside the house.
"They took my cashbox, but that is where I actually keep my EFTPOS receipts, so they wouldn't have gotten anything," said Ms Winter, who sells children's clothing at a local market for a living.
"They even came back for a second round and took more of my personal belongings which would mean nothing to them.
"Honestly I just went, 'there is not much more they can take.'
"Do they want our clothes as well?
"People are extremely angry … it is such a dog act to do in times of crisis where nobody is in their right headspace.
"We have all been affected in some way."
Crooks 'unpacked' moving box
Ms Winter said the intruders had emptied out drawers and a filing cabinet and left her possession strewn about the room.
She said a moving box which she had not unpacked yet had been broken and rifled through.
"They've emptied all the clothes from my drawers and thrown all my bathroom stuff on the ground," she said.
"We had only moved in a few weeks ago but we weren't able to get insurance because the Currowan fire had broken out."
New South Wales Police last week said they were remaining vigilant against thieves entering burnt out properties.
Three men have been charged with looting offenses around Nowra and Moruya.
