Australian firefighters used cooler conditions on Christmas Day to try and conta...
MELBOURNE - Australian firefighters used cooler conditions on Christmas Day to try and contain bushfires ahead of hot, dry weather later in the week, as leaders and communities thanked them for sacrificing time with their families over the holidays.
In the state of New South Wales , which saw entire towns devastated by fires over the weekend, state premier Gladys Berejiklian and the head of the NSW rural fire service, Shane Fitzsimmons, attended a breakfast organized by volunteers in the small town of Colo, 90km northwest of Sydney. Intense heat is forecast to return again by the weekend, especially in Australia’s south, where temperatures are expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius .
The fires have destroyed more than 3.7 million hectares across five states and at least six people have died in NSW and two in South Australia during the bushfire emergency.
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