Bushfire threat spreads in Australia | The Malaysian Insight

Thick smog hangs over Sydney, Australia. Australia is seeing an elevated bushfire danger in what has been a horrific start to its fire season. – EPA pic, November 21, 2019.

THE fire danger was elevated across wider swathes of southern Australia today, with residents warned to avoid at-risk areas as smoke from bushfires choked Sydney and other major cities. Devastating fires along the country’s east coast have claimed six lives and destroyed more than 500 homes since mid-October, with climate change and unseasonably hot, dry conditions fuelling the unprecedented blazes.

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