Australia braces for 'catastrophic' bushfires

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Australia bushfires: New South Wales braces for 'catastrophic' day

Experts have compared the conditions to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, when 173 people died.

Fire chiefs say they are already battling a front spanning 1,000km along the north coast of NSW, with several blazes"exceeding 100,000 hectares alone". "Under catastrophic conditions, fires that start and take hold will grow and develop extremely quickly and become large fires very, very easily," NSW Rural Fire Services Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said.

The fire danger is currently less severe in Queensland, but conditions are forecast to deteriorate later in the week. South Australia is also facing a dozen bushfires on Tuesday.Sense of forebodingWe woke up to a morning haze here in Sydney as smoke moved in from affected areas - you could smell it in the air. One local, Natasha Davo, tweeted there was a"foreboding feeling" in her neighbourhood.

 

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Do Australians understand that Coal and Lignite mined and used and exported from Australia that causes climate change. It's this this has created the 'catastrophic' fire conditions.

No such thing as climate change he says ...

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