SYDNEY - Authorities declared a state of emergency across a broad swath of Australia’s east coast on Monday, urging residents in high risk areas to evacuate ahead of looming “catastrophic” fire conditions.
“Everybody has to be on alert no matter where you are and everybody has to be assume the worst and we cannot allow complacency to creep in,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney. “Tomorrow is about protecting life, protecting property and ensuring everybody is safe as possible,” Berejiklian said.
NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons urged people to evacuate before conditions worsened, warning that new fires can begin up to 20km ahead of established fires. Authorities stressed that even fireproofed homes will not be able to withstand catastrophic conditions, which Fitzsimmons described as “when lives are lost, it’s where people die”.On Monday afternoon, rescue services were moving large animals from high risk areas, while health officials warned that air quality across NSW will worsen as winds blow smoke from the current mid-north coast bushfires south.
Environmental activists and opposition lawmakers have used the fires to call on Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a supporter of the coal industry, to strengthen the country’s emissions targets.
World leaders have failed the people, it’s time the people united and demanded the IMF/World Bank funded green energy, water and food projects for all on this planet and for the sake of the planet.
bernade66158105 Prayers 4 Australia!
The Australian government is a lobby group for the coal industry.
can the Aussie Prime Minister buy the fire departments there real hoses and not garden hoses?
Is very sad....2019 the year of greatest fires around the world.
Any idea if realDonaldTrump offered help like he did Russia when they had fires? Or does he only help dictators?
At times like this, where is Macron? He can only complain about the Amazon, pretending to care about the environment.
Best wishes from California. Sorry Morrison is so much like Trump.
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