Australian man suffers serious burns protecting his home during the nation’s unprecedented fire crisis
Brian Allen uses a garden hose to wet down the house as high winds push smoke and ash from the Currowan Fire towards Nowra, New South Wales, Australia on January 4, 2020
“In the scheme of things, we did OK last night,” Victorian Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp said. Several firefighters received minor burns, and one suffered shortness of breath but were not admitted to a hospital, he said.With no heavy rain expected, the 640,000-hectare blaze that formed overnight when two fires joined in the Snowy Mountains region near Tumbarumba close to the Victorian border is expected to burn for weeks, officials said.
Thousands of protesters rallied late Friday in Sydney and Melbourne, calling for Morrison to be fired and for Australia to take tougher action on global warming. On Friday, thousands of people in the path of fires fled to evacuation centres, while some chose to ignore evacuation orders and stayed to defend their homes.Evan Harris, who lives in the New South Wales rural village of Burragate, said police and fire crews told him he should leave his cottage because of the threat. He told them he wasn’t going anywhere.
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