Dunns Road fire comes within a kilometre of family farm, prompting lemonade fundraiser for RFS

Seeing the devastation to their neighbour's properties, 11-year-old Oscar Nugent enlisted the help of two friends to help him raise funds for the Tarcutta RFS brigade.

After only a few hours selling lemonade in Lake Albert, the boys raised upwards of $500.

"People were extremely generous, they never imagined it would be as a big as it's been," said Toni Nugent, Oscar's mother.

"My son said to me, 'I'd really like to do something, I'm thinking I might sell some of granny's lemonade. I didn't think it would actually eventuate but he got together with some friends and he made it happen."

Though some of the finances has been received after the initial lemonade sale, the whole event has proved to the family the enormous power of 'granny's secret recipe'.

"It's been in my family for a very long time, so it's actually Oscar's great-great grandmother's recipe," Ms Nugent said.

On Thursday afternoon, Oscar joined his fellow lemonade sellers - brothers Rohan aged 11, and 13-year-old Oscar Gianniotis - at the Wagga RFS headquarters to hand the cash over to Tarcutta RFS captain Bruce Angel.

"Even if they'd only made $20 from it, it was a good thing for them to do to help the community," Ms Nugent said.