NSTworld: Three people died in just 24 hours and five others remain missing after the country’s southeast was devastated by out-of-control blazes. AustralianFires
Navy ships and military aircraft were deployed alongside emergency crews Wednesday to provide humanitarian relief and assess the damage from one of the worst days yet in Australia’s months-long bushfire crisis.
New South Wales Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said emergency services faced a “real challenge” trying to help injured people – some reportedly suffering burns – in isolated areas.“We haven’t been able to get access via roads or via aircraft. It’s been... too dangerous and we simply can’t access, nor can the people in these areas get out,” he said.
“I understand there was a standing ovation at the end of that for the firefighters,” Victoria Emergency Management commissioner Andrew Crisp told public broadcaster ABC. Gary Hinton escaped flames roaring through Cobargo early Tuesday and returned to the stricken town later that night to find his father’s home largely intact, but many other buildings reduced to rubble.Cooler temperatures and lighter winds provided a window of opportunity for relief efforts in some areas Wednesday, but there were concerns over new fires sparked by lightning late Tuesday in alpine regions.
Firefighters were racing to take advantage of the milder weather in the country’s south-east to contain dozens of blazes, as authorities warned the fire danger would spike on Saturday as temperatures soar again.
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