SYDNEY – rose to 24 dead the balance of the fires of unprecedented scale that weeks are ravaging entire regions of Australia. “The damage is considerable, authorities said in a press conference after another day dominated by the weather conditions, catastrophic.
Hundreds of properties were destroyed and a man died while trying to save the house of a friend, while the Country has experienced one of the worst days Saturday from the beginning of the fires in September: “We are in unknown territory – said Gladys Berejiklian, Premier of New South Wales -Several villages that had never known a threat of forest fires, which are likely to be completely annihilated”.
Declared a state of emergency in the south-east of the continent, the islands, the most populous region, and on Friday was given the order to over 100 thousand people to evacuate in three states. Yesterday, Sydney has recorded record temperatures, with 48,9 degrees, recorded in Penrith, a western suburb. The most populous city in Australia, with over five million people living in its metropolitan area, is threatened with power outages after two substations were destroyed in a fire and the authorities have called on residents to limit the consumption of electrical energy.
In Canberra, the temperature reached 44 degrees, a survey was unprecedented, according to a spokesman of the meteorological services in australia. The magnitude of the situation, the First Minister Scott Morrison has summoned the day before that three thousand reservists military schierassero, a mobilization never seen before, when an area equivalent to a double of Belgium has already been burned down.
queen Elizabeth II has sent a message of condolences to the governor-general of Australia, her representative in the country, which claims to be “deeply saddened” by the fire, and thanked lde law enforcement, and Firefighters “who have put their lives in danger “to help the population.
Actors, athletes, singers, participated in a fundraiser to support the fire fighters and the communities affected by the fires. American singer Pink has tweeted that he was donating $ 500,000, the australian actress Nicole Kidman has made the same commitment. “The support, the thoughts and prayers of our family go out to all those who have been affected by the fires in the whole of Australia,” he wrote on Instagram.
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