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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022
New bushfire flares in southeast Australia as damage assessment begins

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Reuters
05 January, 2020, 11:10 am
Last modified: 16 January, 2020, 10:24 am

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New bushfire flares in southeast Australia as damage assessment begins

Officials told residents and others in the New South Wales (NSW) state town of Eden to leave immediately and head north if they did not have a bushfire response plan

Reuters
05 January, 2020, 11:10 am
Last modified: 16 January, 2020, 10:24 am
A natural color satellite image shows smoke from wildfires burning east of Obrost, Victoria, Australia January 4, 2020. Satellite image ©2020 Maxar TechnologiesHandout via/Reuters
A natural color satellite image shows smoke from wildfires burning east of Obrost, Victoria, Australia January 4, 2020. Satellite image ©2020 Maxar TechnologiesHandout via/Reuters

A dangerous fire flared up in southeastern Australia on Sunday even as cooler conditions elsewhere allowed authorities to begin assessing the damage from heatwave-spurred blazes that swept through two states on Saturday.

Officials told residents and others in the New South Wales (NSW) state town of Eden to leave immediately and head north if they did not have a bushfire response plan.

A satellite image shows wildfires burning east of Obrost, Victoria, Australia January 4, 2020/Reuters
A satellite image shows wildfires burning east of Obrost, Victoria, Australia January 4, 2020/Reuters

"If your plan is to leave, or you are not prepared, leave towards Merimbula or Pambula," the Rural Fire Service said in an alert.

Tens of thousands of homes in both NSW and Victoria states were without power on Sunday as a large-scale military and police effort continued to provide supplies and evacuate thousands of people who have been trapped for days in coastal towns by the fires.

Initial estimates put damaged or destroyed properties in the hundreds, but authorities said the mass evacuations by residents of at-risk areas appear to have prevented major loss of life. Twenty-four people have been killed since the start of this year's wildfire season.

An aerial view shows smoke covering the coast in New South Wales, Australia January 4, 2020/Reuters
An aerial view shows smoke covering the coast in New South Wales, Australia January 4, 2020/Reuters

Sunday's cooler temperatures and light rain forecast in some coastal areas in coming days could bring some relief, but officials said that would not be enough to bring the almost 200 fires still burning under control.

Fire officials said the next major flashpoint would come later in the week, but it was too early to gauge the likely severity of the threat.

"The weather activity we're seeing, the extent and spread of the fires, the speed at which they're going, the way in which they are attacking communities who have never ever seen fire before is unprecedented," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal towns at the peak of the summer holiday season, in one of the biggest coordinated operations since the evacuation of Darwin after Cyclone Tracy flattened the northern city in 1974.

Australia has been battling blazes across much of its east coast for months, with experts saying climate change has been a major factor in a three-year drought that has left much of the country's bushland tinder-dry and susceptible to fires.

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