The Guardian: Australia fires: nine dead and hundreds of properties destroyed, with worse to come
Residents in Victoria and New South Wales count terrible cost during brief reprieve from disaster that has sent smoke as far as New Zealand
Nine people are confirmed dead, with four still missing, and more than 200 properties have been lost since Christmas Day in Australia’s catastrophic bushfires.
Smoke still hung thick over the south-east of the country on Wednesday evening, even as weather conditions offered a reprieve to take stock of the destruction.
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More News On The Massive Fires In Australia
Australian authorities scramble to reach victims of deadly fires as death toll rises -- Reuters
Australia sending aid to wildfire towns as death toll rises -- AP
Australia fires: Death toll rises as blazes destroy 200 homes -- BBC
Australia sends aid to thousands stranded by bushfires -- France 24
Australian wildfires claim more lives on New Year's Day -- DW
Australia's bushfire towns battle on, despite what they have lost: supplies, power, houses, 'the lot -- The Guardian
Australia: Thousands trapped on beach as fires approach -- DW
Australia fires: Seven dead, hundreds of homes destroyed -- UPI
Australia deploys military aircraft & navy ships to help fire-ravaged communities -- RT
Death toll rises as bushfires spread across Australia -- Al Jazeera
'Apocalyptic': New Zealand shrouded in smoke from Australian bushfires -- The Guardian
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I woke up this morning at my beach house in New Zealand to an orange coloured sunrise courtesy of the smoke in Australia being blown across the Tasman Sea. Australia is 2000k’s away!
Made going for my morning surf feel like the scene out of Apocalypse now.
My sister is holidaying at the opposite part of the country in Cromwell, Central Otago. The haze was so bad she could barely see across Lake Dunstan.
As much as I like to give Aussies a friendly hard time I really do feel for them right now.
Will be fascinating to see what sort of changes this will create within Australia.
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