Even as a bushfire threatened the rural Australian community of Wytaliba, Gary Wilson and his partner Julie Willis decided not to flee their wooden house. The two had a home full of orphaned baby kangaroos to protect. More than 10 of the baby kangaroos, called joeys, stayed safe inside fabric pouches that hung in the couple's living room. Each piece of cloth looked like the opening in which mother kangaroos carry their young. Wilson and Willis have taken care of wild animals before. Recently, full-grown kangaroos and other wildlife that had left their care long ago came back to the house in search of protection as the fires grew nearer. “We had way too many animals in the house and around the house so we really couldn’t go," Wilson told the Reuters news agency from his home. We decided we were going to stay and fight.” Their home is now surrounded by burned land and vehicles.
Title: Australian Couple who Protected Baby Kangaroos from Fires
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3929/joey.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Australian Couple who Protected Baby Kangaroos from Fires' data-article-id='4469'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='17563'>Even as a bushfire threatened the rural Australian community of Wytaliba, Gary Wilson and his partner Julie Willis decided not to flee their wooden house.</span> <span data-start-time='17563' data-end-time='24771'>The two had a home full of orphaned baby kangaroos to protect.</span> <span data-start-time='24771' data-end-time='37688'>More than 10 of the baby kangaroos, called joeys, stayed safe inside fabric pouches that hung in the couple's living room.</span> <span data-start-time='37688' data-end-time='46250'>Each piece of cloth looked like the opening in which mother kangaroos carry their young.</span> <span data-start-time='46250' data-end-time='52438'>Wilson and Willis have taken care of wild animals before.</span> <span data-start-time='52438' data-end-time='67896'>Recently, full-grown kangaroos and other wildlife that had left their care long ago came back to the house in search of protection as the fires grew nearer.</span> <span data-start-time='67896' data-end-time='75167'>“We had way too many animals in the house and around the house so we really couldn’t go,"</span> <span data-start-time='75167' data-end-time='79979'>Wilson told the Reuters news agency from his home.</span> <span data-start-time='79979' data-end-time='84438'>We decided we were going to stay and fight.”</span> <span data-start-time='84438' data-end-time='89500'>Their home is now surrounded by burned land and vehicles.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3929/joey.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=14418 data-hint-location='17563' style='display:none;'><div class='question' 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