Military moves in to help mass-scale evacuation from Australian bushfires

MELBOURNE - Tens of thousands of holiday makers raced to evacuate popular seaside towns on Australia’s east coast on Wednesday, fleeing ahead of advancing bushfires, as military ships and helicopters planned missions to rescue thousands more trapped by the blazes.

Major roads were closed due to fire risks, leaving motorists only a handful of escape routes causing lengthy traffic jams. “It is vital, critical,” NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance said on Australian Broadcasting Corp television. “We need everybody to leave. We are going to face a worse day on Saturday than what we have been through.”Huge bushfires have been burning for weeks across Australia, with new blazes sparked into life almost daily by extremely hot and windy conditions in bushland left tinder dry after a three-year drought.

Five military helicopters and two naval ships were en-route to the south coast to back up firefighters, bring in supplies like water and diesel and to evacuate people, the Australian Defense Force said. “We can’t even get fire trucks into some of these communities,” CFA Chief Officer Steve Warrington said. “This is not over by a long way.”

Next year if the Australian government would start sprinkling water in the forest in advance before summer than that would definitely help preventing the Fires.

Only a few months late AustraliaOnFire .

Trump says math and science are wrong, he is right, there is no climate change.

considering the epic proportions of the disaster surprised they weren't already deployed

So sad.

I am 54 year old. I have never seen this much deafening silence observed by the rest of the world in helping a continental nation literally burning. None can shake out the UN from snoring, but the neighborhood biggies not even reporting the suffering of a nation!

They should have moved in some weeks ago!

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And still our f****d Prime minister doesn’t declare a national emergency. Yesterday he was at the cricket DownWithScomo

+1 ADF

Those firefighters out there are some heroes

Happy New Year Everyone. May this year bring happiness and joy to your life.

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