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. “There’s a lot of people holidaying, again, up in those areas,” Crisp said. “At the very least, weather conditions will be at least as bad as what they were yesterday,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 01, 2020 01:18 UTC