Several towns and communities in heavily populated southeastern region of country advised to be alert, evacuate if needed
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A red and smoke filled sky is seen above the central township of Kingscote in the early hours of January 10, 2020 in Kingscote, Australia. Residents of Parndana and Vivonne Bay have been told to evacuate as bushfire threatens both areas.
“We sent out an emergency alert, so text messaging to 240,000 people, basically across the east of the state. If you can get out, you should get out, you shouldn’t be in the remote and forested parts of our State,” Crisp told ABC News. The state’s Rural Fire Service posted an update on Twitter saying there were “very high, severe and extreme fire dangers” in the region.
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 burnt area in Australia.
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