are the fires in australia over?
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Officials In Australia's New South Wales Celebrate: 'All Fires Are Now Contained' While NSW has been the worst-affected, record high temperatures and other extreme weather conditions have also led to unprecedented wildfire devastation in other regions, including Queensland and Victoria.
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Currently, fires are largely burning across the states of Victoria, where Melbourne is; New South Wales, where Sydney is; and South Australia, where Adelaide is.
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The forest fires in Australia that have been raging for more than four months, show no signs of ebbing. ... The fires seem to be both a natural disaster and man-made calamity. But if extreme weather is counted as being the result of human activities as well, the fires can be seen as purely a man-made disaster.
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Fires in Australia are increasingly under control as cooler temperatures and light winds stay consistent, according to fire fighting officials. ... As of Sunday evening, 111 fires were still burning across the state of New South Wales - 40 of them still uncontrolled, according to the NSW Rural Fire Service.
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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. ... More than a week of heavy rain has helped fire crews extinguish or control dangerous fires.
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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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As of Saturday evening, there are no fires burning in the ACT. ... But authorities are concerned that new fires started by dry lightning strikes or arson could quickly become difficult to control. Follow our live blog for updates on bushfires and evacuations.
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Australia fires: British firefighters to assist with clean-up. A group of about 300 serving and retired firefighters are heading to Australia to help rebuild communities hit by bushfires.
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Rain Brought Brief Relief to Australia. For much of the 2019-2020 austral summer, plumes of bushfire smoke have billowed from southeastern Australia in such large amounts that the ground was barely visible in satellite images. ... The rain could not extinguish every fire, but it helped reduce the numbers.
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'Unprecedented' globally: more than 20% of Australia's forests burnt in bushfires. More than 20% of Australia's forests burned during the summer's bushfire catastrophe, a proportion scientists believe is unprecedented globally, according to new research.
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There are currently no fires in the Northern Territory, where Uluru is, but there are some fires in Tasmania and in Western Australia, where Perth is, but all three areas are still considered largely safe. ... Then This Australian Town Burned.
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Every Wildfire In New South Wales, Australia, Is Now Under Control : NPR. Every Wildfire In New South Wales, Australia, Is Now Under Control The fires that burned for months over much of eastern Australia have finally been brought under control, helped by days of intense rain. But recovery remains a long-term effort.
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Australia fires: Rain finally falls on some bushfires. Australians are celebrating the arrival of much-needed rain in parts of the nation's bushfire-ravaged south-east. Though more wet weather is needed to end the fires, the rain has brought a welcome reprieve to many areas. Other parts, however, have not been as lucky ...
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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.
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Australia fires burn through 15 million acres of land, kill at least 25 peopleThe fires in Australia's outback are even larger than the recent massive wildfires in California and the Amazon Rainforest, and shows how the effects of climate change reach all corners of the globe.
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From September 2019 to March 2020, fires heavily impacted various regions of the state of New South Wales. ... By 4 March 2020, all fires in New South Wales had been extinguished completely (to the point where there were no fires in the state for the first time since July), and the Victoria fires had all been contained.
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On February 13 the fire service said all of the fires in New South Wales had been declared contained for the first time this season. Now, all bushfires in the state have been extinguished. Last month, the fire service described this latest fire season as "very traumatic, exhausting and anxious."