It is believed as many as 30 homes could have already been damaged or destroyed in a massive bushfire burning to the east of Perth.Firefighters say conditions including wind gusts are fanning the flamesAn emergency warning is in place for parts of the shires of Mundaring, Chittering and Northam, and the City of Swan, forcing many residents to flee.
The alert applies to parts of The Vines, Bailup, Ellenbrook, Gidgegannup, Millendon, Walyunga National Park, Upper Swan, Aveley, the Avon Valley national park, Wundowie, Red Hill, Belhus, Baskerville, Herne Hill, Bullsbrook, Wooroloo and Brigadoon.Residents flee to evacuation centre and family's homes"There were a number of people there that had stayed to defend quite successfully," he said.
"We expected significant numbers, but a lot of people had relocated to other people's homes, especially with the COVID restrictions that are on they'd taken that option rather than go into a large crowd," he said.Mr Bailey said they had been fortunate not to have had any fatalities and he had been informed one injured firefighter was recovering well.
Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)
Should sanction Facebook as well.
Media so very excited
This is so tragic. Those poor people. Lives destroyed for near future. To think that funds allocated to support people in this situation this time last year in the East were rorted and funnelled to LNP seats is beyond disgraceful. A new low in Aust politics.
Sitting in lockdown at least 30kms from the fire. Heavy smoke and soot flying across the back patio. Seriously hope it gets under control soon.
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