Australia’s rainy respite from bushfires seen ending | Malay Mail

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MELBOURNE, Jan 27 — A recent respite for Australian firefighters that brought rains and cooler weather is set to end, meteorologists warned today, with hot conditions forecast for later this week raising a risk that blazes may start spreading again. Australia experiences regular bushfires over...

Country Fire Service members put out a fire which reached hay bales on a property at Mount Torrens in the Adelaide Hills, Australia January 3, 2020. — AAP Image/Kelly Barnes/via Reuters

More than a week of solid rain in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, the three states most affected by the fires, has more than halved the number of blazes, but above average temperatures were set to return by the weekend. “More than 1,300 firefighters are using more favourable conditions to slow the spread of fires and strengthen containment lines, ahead of forecast increasing temperatures later in the week,” the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said on Twitter.

* Wayne Coulson, chief operating officer of Coulson Group, the Canadian firm that owned the plane and employed its crew, said on Monday he flew to the crash site. “To see our aircraft on the ground, knowing we have had such loss of life was devastating,” he said.

 

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