Firefighter dies as Australia plans to adapt to wildfires
Source: AP
By NICK PERRY
BURRAGATE, Australia (AP) Another firefighter has died battling the Australian wildfire crisis and the prime minister on Sunday said his government was adapting and building resilience to the fire danger posed by climate change.
The firefighter one of the few professionals among mainly volunteer brigades battling blazes across southeast Australia died on Saturday near Omeo in eastern Victoria state, Victorian Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp said. No details of the circumstances were released.
The tragedy brings the death toll to at least 27 people in a crisis that has destroyed more than 2,000 homes and scorched an area larger than the U.S. state of Indiana since September. Four of the casualties were firefighters.
Authorities are using relatively benign conditions forecast in southeast Australia for a week or more to consolidate containment lines around scores of fires that are likely to burn for weeks without heavy rainfall. The reprieve from severe fire conditions promises to be the longest of the current fire season.
Sheep graze in a field shrouded with smoke haze near at Burragate, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Wildfires continue to burn after warm dry weather hastened an early fire season in Australia. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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bucolic_frolic
(43,202 posts)maybe that plays well in Australia, but sounds empty to me
not fooled
(5,801 posts)sounds like focus group-tested consultant-speak.
The future: instead of doing anything to stop climate change, the oligarchs will roll out mass-market propaganda to persuade the peasantry to accept it.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and well get back to you.
hatrack
(59,587 posts).
Magoo48
(4,717 posts)Yet, since their government is as willfully ignorant as our own, Id probably agree that its a defection. Destruction of life on this scale overwhelms me. Its heartbreaking..
nocoincidences
(2,223 posts)Disgusting political pandering while the country burns.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)scrotum Rupert Murdoch a couple of buckets of water and dump them in the middle of it? I'm sure they'll be fine.