The fires left 173 people killed and 414 others injured as up to 400 individual fires burned over one million acres of Victorian land, making it the most devastating bushfire in Australia's history. Almost eight years since the fire ravaged the state, a survey by Beyond Bushfires, carried ou...
Once a fire starts in one of the large unpopulated areas of wilderness, the naturally dry and dense Australian bush can quickly become consumed by flames and spread beyond what fire crews are able to contain. Contributing to conditions this season was an ongoing drought which left fuel sources ...
A bushfire rages during the fight to save the township of Taggerty on Feb. 7, 2009, near Marysville, in Australia’s Victoria state. (Stephen Henderson / County Fire Authority) After this Australian town burned down, experts warned against rebuilding. Nobody listened. The Australian town of ...
America, if you want class, decency, and character in the White House again, vote for Joe Biden in November. Australian Bushfires Continue Australia has been through perhaps the worst fires in its modern history. Bushfires are raging across the country, and countless homes and buildings have ...
In the 2019 Nelson Fires in New Zealand and the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires, animal disaster response charities distributed pet carriers to communities under imminent threat of bushfire [53]; Animal Evac, 2021). This measure was taken as a response to evidence that the adequate provision of...
First it was Bean, way back in March. Never really talked about Bean here on the ‘crawl. Buns were really more The BUG’s thing and they tended to live down in the basement anyway, so we didn’t interact as much as we did with the cats. But Bean was cool. She was small and ...
But NSW farmer Dunford remains confident their luck will turn around eventually and the drought will break, saying there has been extreme weather all through Australia’s history. “It could all turn around in three weeks time, it could be quite wet and away we go,” he told CNN. ...
Grim Warning on Bushfires; Queensland Experiences Worst Bushfire Conditions in Years as Officials Warn Residents to Be on GuardGympie Times, The Qld
THICK SMOKE blanketed the Australian capital, Canberra, yesterday and a layer of ash coated the white Parliament building after forest fires raced into the city, killing four people and destroying 400 homes.Kathy Marks in Melbourne