MELBOURNE - Residents of a coastal township on Australia’s World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached.Since it was sparked by an illegal campfire seven weeks ago, the blaze has blackened half the island off Australia’s north eastern coast, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef and famed for its tropical rainforest on sand dunes, and inland lakes.
“We now don’t anticipate that that fire will run into the Happy Valley settlement today but we’ll continue to work hard,” Leach said. Officials said that there were more than 90 personnel, 38 vehicles and 17 aircraft working on Fraser Island, including a large air tanker based in the state for the bushfire season and another tanker on the way from New South Wales state.“Leaving immediately is the safest option, as it will soon be too dangerous to drive,” the state’s Fire and Emergency Services said on social media. “Any persons in the vicinity of Happy Valley township should leave the area.
sad too see.
The policies of environmentalists to stop maintenance of fire breaks is now destroying the land, just like it used to before the policy of fire breaks was created.
All the fire fighting trucks will have to go over on a ferry