are there fires burning in queensland?
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About 40 bushfires are burning across the state following a heatwave, said Queensland Fire and Emergency Services. The most serious blaze, 450km (280 miles) north of Brisbane, has destroyed at least two homes, damaged four others and prompted evacuation orders.
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Burning carbon embers thrown from train engine exhausts can also start bushfires. Campfires: Embers from campfires, and campfires that aren't properly extinguished are a bushfire hazard. ... And police have charged a juvenile with starting a Central Queensland bushfire which destroyed 14 homes this week.
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IFAW has deployed additional responders to provide emergency support to our Australia team already responding to the deadly bushfires in Australia. For the past three months, bushfires have ravaged across New South Wales and Queensland, forcing thousands to evacuate and decimating local wildlife populations.
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A large, volatile bushfire on the Sunshine Coast has been returned to emergency advice level for two areas near Noosa as more than 50 fires burn across Queensland. ... The fire is currently burning near Bungundarra Road, Mount Rae Road, Woodbury Road, Norpine Road and Woodbine Road.
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Little improvement seen in wildfire situation in Queensland There are 130 fires currently burning, with about seven of them described as fast moving and significant. Hundreds of firefighters have arrived from New South Wales and other areas to lend a hand.
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Fire officials in Australia are celebrating a landmark moment, saying that for the first time in what has been a horrendous wildfire season, every fire in hard-hit New South Wales is now under control. ... "Not all fires are out," Rogers added, noting that some fires are burning in the state's far south.
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Residents in the Dubbo district are waking up to a smoke haze on Sunday morning. An easterly wind change pushed smoke from bushfires in other parts of the state overnight, the NSW Bureau of Meteorology said in a post to Twitter. There were no bushfires in the Dubbo district at 10am, the Fires Near Me website showed.
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Though nowhere near high or extreme, the BC Wildfire Service says there have been 46 fires since April 1, including 28 in the last seven days. Further, there are 18 active fires, with 39 per cent attributed as being human-caused.
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In northern NSW large fires are burning in the region between Port Macquarie and Byron Bay. ... The fire in the Blue Mountains, a world heritage area and popular tourist destination, is some 64,000 hectares in size and out of control, the NSW Rural Fire Service said on Sunday.
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The fire has been raging across some 12,500 hectares (30,888 acres) of the Adelaide Hills since last Friday. More than 100 people have needed hospital treatment, while at least 38 homes and 125 outhouses have been destroyed and livestock has died.
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Bushfire has burned almost half of Kangaroo Island South Australian Country Fire Service. ... Properties have been lost, firefighters injured and more land blackened after a night of horrific conditions across the Kangaroo Island bushfires, but the emergency has eased.
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Victoria, where fires have burned 1.2 million hectares, extended a "state of disaster" for the worst-hit areas from 2 to 11 January. Some blazes are still burning in the state and there are emergency warnings are in place. ... Three people - including one firefighter - have died as a result of the fires.
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Wednesday looms as a pivotal day in battling a massive blaze near the Hawkesbury River, which has already burned through more than 140,000 hectares of land. "It's still a very active, dangerous fire," Rural Fire Service spokesman Greg Allan told the Herald.
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Temperatures surpassed 40C (104F) in parts of south-east Australia on Saturday as fires ravaged through homes and land. Since September, the fires in Australia have killed at least 23 people. Dozens of people are missing and some 1,500 homes have already been lost this fire season.
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Although recent cooler conditions and rain have brought some respite, more than 50 fires are still burning in the states of New South Wales and Victoria.
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This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia's history, with at least 15 people killed, hundreds of homes destroyed and millions of acres burned. And summer is far from over. ... The hot, dry conditions that have fueled the fires are nothing new in Australia.
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Yes, Australia has always had bushfires: but 2019 is like nothing we've seen before. As the area burned across Australia this fire season pushes beyond five million hectares, an area larger than many countries, stories of destruction have become depressingly familiar.