Australians ordered to evacuate immediately as firefighters struggle to contain bushfires raging across the country’s east coast via Colpackham
SYDNEY - Australian officials ordered people in several communities, including a major tourist destination, to evacuate immediately on Wednesday as firefighters struggled to contain more than 150 bushfires raging across the east coast.
Authorities issued a “leave immediately” warning, the highest level, for several areas including Noosa, a beachside holiday destination 150 km north of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland. The blazes have claimed three lives and destroyed about 2.5 million acres of farmland and bush, fuelled by extremely dry conditions after three years of drought, which experts say has been exacerbated by climate change.“We will not have all these fires contained before then,” NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons told reporters in Sydney. “We will not have all these fires contained and locked up for many, many weeks.
No deaths were reported on Tuesday as warning systems and evacuation plans appeared to save lives in the face of what officials said was the greatest threat in at least a decade. Crowe said the property had “lost a couple of buildings”, some fires were still burning and “we are out of water”.
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