Photos: Wildfires in Australia have blackened almost 12.3 million acres in the New South Wales state.
Exhausted firefighters welcomed cooler weather and patchy rain in blaze-ravaged southeastern Australia Monday after a calamitous few days, even as authorities warn of a return to dangerous conditions later this week.
The inland city of about 500,000 people has been one of the hardest hit by the smoke haze that’s shrouded southeast Australia for weeks. On Monday, Canberra again had the world’s worst air quality, conditions that over the weekend prompted the release of about 100,000 particulate-filter masks from the national stockpile.There’s little improvement expected in conditions that have already caused the cancellation of dozens of flights as well as postal services.
A 50-second advertisement about the deployment by Morrison’s Liberal Party was widely criticized for appearing to opportunistically politicize the crisis. It’s another misstep by Morrison, who was lambasted for taking an unannounced pre-Christmas vacation to Hawaii amid the crisis, and was filmed turning his back on a pregnant woman appealing for more resources to tackle the blazes as he toured a bushfire-ravaged community.An empty train station as rain begins to fall in Bundanoon.
On Saturday, two people died in wildfires that destroyed more than a third of South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, devastating the national park and farmland, and severely damaging the luxury Southern Ocean Lodge resort. Penrith, on the outskirts of Sydney, reached a record 120 degrees Saturday, the latest example of the dangerous weather conditions that have fanned ferocious flames and sparked new blazes farther south.A dog sits among ash from wildfires washed up on a beach in Merimbula.
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