With no heavy rain forecast, 600,000 hectare fire expected to burn for weeks
The Dunns Road Fire crowns the tops of a trees close near Maragle, Australia on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020.Two wildfires have merged to form a 600,000-hectare inferno in southeast Australia and a resident was injured protecting their home during a night of extraordinarily treacherous conditions as the nation’s unprecedented fire crisis continues.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there had been a “serious injury of somebody protecting their property.” She said that person had been taken to a Sydney hospital, but gave no other details. It has also brought accusations that Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government needs to take more action to counter climate change. Thousands of protesters rallied late Friday in Sydney and Melbourne, the respective capitals of New South Wales and Victoria, calling for Morrison to be fired and for Australia to take tougher action on global warming.
Evan Harris, who lives in the New South Wales rural village of Burragate, said police and fire crews told him he should leave his cottage because of the threat, but he told them he wasn’t going anywhere.A fire strike team and several members of the Australian Army arrived in the village to try to save properties, and the assembled team was prepared to hunker down in the local fire station if the flames overran them.
Harris prepared for the fires expected on Friday night by tacking sheets of iron over his windows and clearing the area around the house of grass and shrubbery that might have caught alight. He dug a hole away from the cottage to house his gas canisters.
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