TIL Desk/World/(Victoria)Australia/ Australia’s raging bushfire crisis, one of the worst in its history, has killed 24 people, burned over six million hectares of land, reduced to ashes hundreds of homes and pushed many species towards extinction, officials said on Thursday. Authorities on Thursday issued fresh warnings and evacuation orders in the country’s southeast as hot and windy conditions threatened to regenerate huge bushfires.
Around 23 fires were still burning in Victoria, according to the state’s emergency management commissioner Andrew Crisp. Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews on Thursday announced extending state’s first-ever state of disaster ahead of “significant fire activity” forecast for the next two days.
“We
have forecast conditions of extreme danger, very significant fire activity is
likely off the back of a hot day today, a hot day tomorrow and a change not coming
through in the east of the state until late afternoon tomorrow and in the
northern part of the state not until the evening on Saturday,” he said. “This
means that we have every reason to believe there will be significant fire
activity over the next 48 hours and that means it is appropriate that we
continue the state of disaster,” Andrews said.
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