‘Catastrophic’ Aussie bushfires have Sydney residents on the run

The country’s prime minister, a staunch coal industry ally, refuses to say if climate change is making conditions worseA vehicle burns at a house in Possum Brush, south of Taree in the Mid-North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, November 12 2019. Picture: VIA REUTERS/AAP IMAGES/DARREN PATEMAN

Officials were responding to 11 emergency warnings in New South Wales by the evening as about half the 70 fires across the state burned uncontrolled in conditions termed “catastrophic”. Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia’s dry summers but the ferocity and early arrival of this outbreak in the southern hemisphere spring has caught many by surprise. Blazes have been spurred by extremely dry conditions after three years of drought in parts of NSW and Queensland, which experts say has been exacerbated by climate change.

In the small town of Wauchope, 400km north of Sydney, residents moved hundreds of livestock to the central showground as fires approached. In Sydney, home to 5-million people, health authorities urged people with respiratory issues to stay indoors because the city was covered by a “hazardous” smoky haze. About 600 schools and colleges are closed across the state.

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