Tourists, firefighters flee as new heatwave fans Australia blazes

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Tourists and firefighters were forced to flee vast fires burning in southeastern Australia on Monday, as a heatwave rekindled devastating bush blazes across the country.

Authorities said "quite a number" of the 30,000 tourists visiting the usually picturesque southeast tip of the continent had heeded calls to evacuate.

More than a dozen blazes are raging in the East Gippsland countryside, some so intensely that hundreds of firefighters were pulled back beyond a firefront estimated to stretch 1,000 kilometres (600 miles).

It was deemed "unsafe" for them to remain in bushland areas, Gippsland fire incident controller Ben Rankin said.

It is the latest emergency in Australia's devastating summer fire season, which has been turbocharged by a prolonged drought and climate change.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tourists-firefighters-flee-as-new-heatwave-fans-australia-blazes/ar-BBYrWno?li=BBnbfcL

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1. So, the Australian Prime Minister says Sydney's

New Years fireworks must go on inspite of fires. Either he has the power to comamand it or he has support. The whole situation is terrible, ecologically, physically and politically.