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A 6-year-old farm dog is being celebrated after saving a flock of sheep as a wall of fire destroyed acres of farmland in southeastern Australia.

In the early hours of New Yearโ€™s Eve, kelpie-border collie cross Patsy from the rural town of Corryong, Victoria, rounded up her flock of sheep as encroaching bushfires consumed the land surrounding her ownerโ€™s farm. According to SBS News, Patsy herded her 900-strong flock of sheep into the safest paddock on the farm as her owner, Stephen Hill, battled the flames.

All but a handful of the farmโ€™s flock were saved. Patsyโ€™s quick thinking, Hillโ€™s organization, and the trajectory of the flames also meant that hay bales, silage, farm houses, and the shearing shed were spared from the fire.

Cath Hill, Stephen Hillโ€™s sister, filmed Patsy after her epic sheep rescue, sitting on the scorched farmland where the fire had passed over. โ€œHey Patsy, can you hear those sheep?โ€ Hill can be heard saying in the video. โ€œThatโ€™s all your work, well done! You little champion. Good girl.โ€

Hill also shared pictures of her brotherโ€™s newly nicknamed โ€œWonder Dogโ€ on Instagram, captioning one moving image: โ€œThis is Patsy just after she and her human brought the sheep to safety on the morning of New Yearโ€™s Eve.

โ€œCool as a cucumber, Patsy waited with him until the fire got close enough to fight with a tractor and water pump,โ€ Hill continued. โ€œWhat a team!

โ€œAnd hereโ€™s Patsyโ€™s sheep,โ€ read another post, โ€œsafe and sound today!โ€ The caption accompanied a photo of a somewhat eerie, smoke-filled horizon behind Patsyโ€™s flock of sheep, grazing peacefully and safely after the emergency herding.

โ€œItโ€™s like Armageddon,โ€ Hill later told Metro, as her brother continued to battle with bushfires in Corryong. โ€œEveryone is just trying to get water and feed to their animals,โ€ she added, โ€œshoot the ones that canโ€™t be saved, get temporary fences up to keep stock secure, and put out all the logs and stumps still burning.

โ€œ[T]hereโ€™s people who have nothing left but the clothes on their backs,โ€ Hill said.