SYDNEY: Fire-ravaged Australia has launched a major operation to reach thousands of people stranded in seaside towns after deadly bushfires ripped through popular tourist areas on New Year’s Eve. It’s been… too dangerous and we simply can’t access, nor can the people in these areas get out,” he said. “I understand there was a standing ovation at the end of that for the firefighters,” Victoria Emergency Management commissioner Andrew Crisp told public broadcaster ABC. Satellite images show smoke from the latest fires has blown across the Tasman Sea to reach New Zealand. Officials in Sydney have also been criticised for ignoring calls to cancel the harbor city’s famed New Year’s Eve fireworks display.

Source: Manila Times January 01, 2020 04:37 UTC