{"id":113175,"date":"2023-11-01T05:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sitata.com\/?p=113175"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:37:32","slug":"australia-on-high-alert-due-to-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitata.com\/ar\/australia-on-high-alert-due-to-bushfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia on High Alert due to Bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"
Australia is on high alert due to multiple active wildfires across the country. Bushfires continue to burn in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and the Northern Territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bushfires in Australia are often due to extremely high temperatures, low relative humidity, strong winds, lightning strikes, climate change, or human activity that includes deliberate arson or carelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season claimed the lives of over 500 people; around 6,000 homes and 24.3 million hectares of land were destroyed. Close to one billion animals were killed. Four years after the horrific Black Summer, the early start of wildfire season this year is likely to be a warning that there might be another disaster in the upcoming months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large fires have started since September that might possibly last until 2024. Around 420 bushfires in Queensland and 130 in NSW have been fought by firefighters in just the last seven days alone. Temperatures reportedly exceeded 42 degrees Celsius. In Tara, two people were killed while two others died in NSW due to the fires. Around 11,000 hectares and close to 40 homes were destroyed in Tara over four days. Residents were evacuated. Dry lightning due to overnight storms on 26 October triggered five new fires across Queensland. As of 30 October, around 70 bushfires remained active in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n