A million hectares of Australia's east coast have gone up in flames

More than 1.1 million acres are burned or the burner remains on the australian east coast. This writes the news agency Reuters on the night of Wednesday local

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
13 November 2019 Wednesday 00:00
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A million hectares of Australia's east coast have gone up in flames

More than 1.1 million acres are burned or the burner remains on the australian east coast.

This writes the news agency Reuters on the night of Wednesday local time.

on Wednesday morning, local time is brandmyndighedernes focus particularly directed against the state of Queensland, where the temperatures over 36 degrees celsius and strong winds may aggravate the situation tremendously.

because of the weather forecast is issued warnings about serious fire hazard in the whole of the southern part of Queensland. It writes The Guardian.

the Fire department in the state got Tuesday of reinforcements from New Zealand. And on Wednesday, there are also arrived additional forces from Tasmania.

This was stated by the prime minister in Queensland, Annastacia Palaszczuk, writes The Guardian.

All the residents in the areas of Scenic Rim and Noosa have been asked to leave their homes and seek safety.

After a very violent Tuesday is the situation in the state of New South Wales is the most densely populated in Australia, in turn, improved a bit. It writes Reuters.

There is thus no longer fires in the state, as the authorities have declared the highest warning: the "emergency level". On Tuesday, there were a total of 19 of this type of fires in New South Wales.

on Tuesday, there was more than 300 new fires in the state, which was spread by high temperatures and strong winds. More than 50 homes were destroyed, and 21 people were injured in connection with the fires.

the Flames came a few feet from several homes in the outskirts of Sydney's suburbs.

A change to cooler weather has helped to improve the situation on Wednesday morning, which has led the people of the state to breathe a sigh of relief, writes the news agency AFP.

Nevertheless, warns the fire department in the state that no one can be sure yet. In the next week rising temperatures again in New South Wales.

- We can't get control of all the fires before then. We don't get turned off all the fires, before it has gone many, many weeks, says Simon Fitzsimmons, who is the director of the fire department in the state.

- Unfortunately it is the rain we need. Significant rain. And there is nothing in the weather forecast the near future, that's going to change the circumstances we are experiencing right now, he says, according to Reuters.

Updated: 13.11.2019 00:00