Australia mouse plague: Household’s dwelling burns down after rodents chew by way of wires

A family got a brand new house after their house burned down when a disaster of mice chewed through electrical wires in the roof and started a fire.

The fire engulfed the property in Gwabegar, New South Wales, leaving Rebekah Ward and her young family nowhere to live, as reported by MailOnline.

Ms. Ward said the mouse infestation that has plagued eastern Australia in recent months has been so severe that her sons, John, 12, Charlie, 9 and Oliver, 7, have all been bitten by rodents.

She told The Today Show, “They crawl over the kids at night. They wake up, they’re in our shoes, they’re on our benches, they’re everywhere, ”she said.

“You eat the food. We had to pack the food in a tool box. You come through the lounge. They will bite you on the back. “

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The congregation gathered and supported the mother of three and their young family by feeding them and giving them new homes.

Ms. Ward added, “We can start again and get back on our feet and have no stress for three months and figure out what we’re going to do.”

“It’s a roof over the boys. We can go back to normal and get the boys back to school. “

New South Wales and other hotspots in Eastern Australia are currently hit by a mouse plague that is wreaking havoc on farmers in the area as the rodents eat grain and make their way into grain silos.

There are several reports of people being bitten in hospitals and of farmers holding the legs of their beds in buckets of water to prevent mice from biting them while they sleep.

Videos posted on social media have highlighted the scale of the problem with thousands of mice frolicking on farms, swarming rooftops and invading storerooms that hold grain.

Xavier Martin, a grain farmer from the Liverpool Plains, New South Wales, discussed the situation on BBC Radio 4’s Today program on Wednesday.

He said, “Since they run out of food and they cannibalize each other, they refuse, but in other places they just absolutely explode and there are billions, not thousands.”

“At my family farm, we put out two billion baits, mostly by air, and we are only medium-sized farmers and they are all gone, the baits have all been taken.”

The government has filed an emergency permit to allow the use of a poison called bromadiolone to solve the problem.

However, environmentalists have warned that the poison could also harm other animals such as eagles that eat mice.