Heartless thieves have taken a bushfire evacuee's car and set it on fire.
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Rebekah Hodkinson lived through the bushfire at Gerogery in 2009.
Given how close that blaze came to her home, she took no chances on Friday morning and left her Tallangatta South home for Lavington amid concerns the bushfires would spread to her property.
Her Mazda 2 and its contents were torched at Lavington's Pioneer Park, at the intersection of Urana Road and Pearsall Street, about 5.20am on Sunday.
The vehicle was set alight only two kilometres from the Privett Place home she had been staying at, and was near dry scrub and trees.
"It's really distressing," Ms Hodkinson said.
"I had a lot of stuff in my car which I didn't want to get burnt in the bushfire, and now it's been burnt.
"It's so dangerous.
"It's so stupid."
Ms Hodkinson was shocked to find the vehicle missing.
"It's awful," she said.
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"You can't imagine what it's like to walk out the front, go to put something in your car and it's not there."
Her home wasn't damaged by the fire.
The incident is the latest low act during the bushfires, which have been burning for more than a week.
Four wheels were stolen from a car left in Wodonga while its owner helped protect a family property from the blaze.
Kane Fitzpatrick, of Whorouly, returned from Thowlga Valley on Friday to find the wheels gone and his car dented.
He had parked it near Bunnings on Tuesday and travelled with his brother-in-law Dean Jones, of Kiewa, to the Paton family property, home of his wife's parents.
A 19-year-old was also charged with breaking into a Batlow home on Thursday.
