Officials told visitors to leave the South Coast region of New South Wales as they declared a seven-day state of emergency in the state.
Tourists in Australia’s New South Wales are being ordered to evacuate the state’s South Coast region before this weekend as the country battles more than 200 wildfires that have killed at least 17 people.
A seven-day state of emergency will also go into effect on Friday for the southeastern state, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Thursday. It’s the third time that such an emergency has been declared for NSW in the past two months. NSW Rural Fire Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, who on Wednesday presented a medal to the young son of one of two firefighters killed while responding to the blazes last month, cautioned that conditions are expected to only get worse.
Fitzsimmons said his agency has run various simulations to help predict the wildfires’ spread. In those simulations, “those fires spread at what we call the absolute worst-case scenario, which typically is not what happens when it plays out in the ground.”
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