Communities across Australia’s fire-ravaged southeast brace for a long day of mounting danger as thousands abandon their homes for evacuation centers and military helicopters drop emergency supplies to towns at risk of being isolated by blazes.
A yacht sails past a burning woodchip mill as the wildfires hits the town of Eden, New South Wales, Australia, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. The wildfires have destroyed 2,000 homes and continue to burn, threatening to flare up again as temperatures rise.
“We want people out into safer places,” Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons told reporters. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Australian military was on standby to help firefighters and emergency agencies. Last week, some houses in the village were destroyed by a fire that turned the afternoon sky first a deep magenta and then pitch black, Nightingale said.A wind change from the south was predicted for Friday evening, which officials fear could blow the flames in a new direction. Nightingale said he and the other firefighters would work to snuff out any spot fires that flare up to try and keep them from spreading.
Morrison said on Thursday that a government inquiry into the fires would examine the role of climate change.
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