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74 wildfires still raging in Australia
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IANS | 08 Nov, 2019
At least 74 wildfires, 33 of
them out of control, continued to burn on Friday in Australia, a country
that is undergoing one of its worst droughts in hundred years and where
more than 575,000 hectares have already been lost to the flames since
July.
A spokesperson for the New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire
Service told Efe news that between July 1 to November 5, around 574,727
hectares had been burned, and although the figure was not updated, it
had already exceeded the area that was consumed by fires in the previous
two seasons put together.
The spokesperson stressed that the
amount of land razed by fire since July 1, which already exceeds twice
the size of Luxembourg, could further increase dramatically given that
the fire season has just begun in Australia.
In 2018, the country recorded its third-hottest year ever.
This
season, firefighters have been battling fires mainly in northern NSW,
in the localities of Hillville, where more than 1,160 hectares of forest
land have been charred, Torrington (18,000 hectares) and Crowdy Bay
(2,000 hectares).
Firefighters in northern NSW are also preparing
for an upsurge in adverse conditions on Friday, when temperatures of 37
degrees Celsius are expected in the city of Brisbane, whereas in
Western Australia, temperatures are forecast to exceed 40 degrees in
cities such as Perth.
The fire season in Australia varies by area
and weather conditions, although it usually occurs during the southern
summer (between the months of December and March).
The worst
fires in the Oceanic country in recent decades occurred in early
February 2009 in the state of Victoria (southeast), causing 173 deaths
and leaving 414 injured while burning an area of 4,500 sq.km.
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