Australian authorities urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate th...
SYDNEY - Australian authorities urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes on Friday and prepared military backup as soaring temperatures and erratic winds fanned bushfires across the east coast.
Emergency alert text messages were sent to 240,000 people in Victoria state alone, telling them to leave, Crisp said. People in high-risk regions in New South Wales and South Australia states were also urged to think about leaving, but authorities had not provided numbers.Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had given instructions to the military so “that they are to stand ready to move and support immediately.
* Victoria state had 18 fires, three of which were so severe that evacuation orders have been issued. Two more fires are at an emergency level. * Australia’s wildfires have dwarfed other catastrophic blazes around the world. Combining 2019 fires in California, Brazil and Indonesia still amounts to less than half the burned area in Australia.
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