Australia's wildfires continue to burn for four months
FromTime2020-1-7
January 7, 2020
Australia's wildfires have been burning for four months.It's still spreading.
On January 6th,Smoke from wildfires continued to cover the Australian capital Canberra Sunday. Australian media reported,Some of the agencies in charge of Australia's disaster and emergency response in Canberra have temporarily closed.The home office sent an email to staff in the capital late on Friday, instructing them to leave their offices within the next 48 hours, but that "key positions and personnel associated with frontline operations" would remain elsewhere.
On December 22, 2019, Australian prime minister Scott Morrison held a press conference to apologize for taking his family abroad for a recent holiday despite the emergency of deadly wildfires raging across Australia.However, an apology that evaded the point was clearly not accepted by angry australians.
The Australian bushfire, which began burning in September last year, has been burning for four months now and is spreading over more than 52,500 square kilometers, or nearly 6 million hectares, the size of Croatia.The fires have killed 24 people and killed 500 million animals.
On January 4th, Mr Morrison announced that an extra 3,000 defence reserves would be deployed, military aircraft would provide evacuation assistance and defence military bases in Adelaide, Brisbane and elsewhere would be opened to provide emergency short-term accommodation for evacuees.
On January 5th, Mr Morrison said again that the Australian defence force was assisting in the evacuation of the fire zone.Navy ships have evacuated 1,100 people from the Victorian town of Mallacoota in the past 24 hours, while military helicopters have evacuated remote villages and ferried firefighters.
On January. 6th, the Australian government pledged a $2 billion to a new disaster recovery agency to help rebuild homes and critical infrastructure destroyed in the fires.
However, the fire dyed the sky red, the trees burned to black, the animals died in pieces...In the face of the continuing spread of fire, these measures, obviously, came too late.
