Terrifying timelapse footage shows smoke billowing from a bushfire in Moruya, east of Canberra, forming a blanket over the skyline.<br /><br />As the timelapse goes on the flames from the fire can be seen edging closer towards the camera as day turns to night on January 4.<br /><br />Tristan Richards, who filmed this footage, told Newsflare: "The Clyde River fire churned vast columns of ash-laden smoke and roared unrelentingly as my family and I played scrabble by torchlight to distract ourselves and perpetuate an illusory sense of normality.<br /><br />"I didn't want to look out the window myself, as I live only a few kms to the east of that inferno, but I couldn't pass up the chance to film it and watch when I had the stomach for it."
