Mungindi flooded with offers of help after NSW-Queensland border town loses three shops to fire

Support and donations are coming from across the nation to support the small border community of Mungindi, which lost its only supermarket, butchery and clothing store in a freak fire on Tuesday night. Key points: A GoFundMe page has raised more than $40,000 to help the town recover Residents have chosen the town's former RSL building as the site for a temporary supermarket Locals have been contacted by residents of Walgett, which also lost its only grocery store to fire last year As of 3:00pm Thursday, more than $45,000 has been raised via a GoFundMe page for the town overnight, on top of $100,000 committed by the NSW Government to set up a temporary grocery store. "The reality hasn't hit home that you just can't go down the street and buy a carton of milk, a loaf of bread," local stock and station agent Peter Prosser said. At a crisis meeting overnight, locals flagged the former Mungindi RSL building as the site for the temporary supermarket and are spending Thursday cleaning it out.