“You wake up in the morning and you can smell the bush burning,” Brown says. There are more than 100 fires burning in New South Wales, and dozens more in Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia. South Australia had catastrophic conditions on Friday, on the heels of Australia experiencing its three hottest days ever recorded. Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPAAs of Friday, 800 homes have been lost to bushfire in NSW, 40 in Queensland and an unconfirmed number in South Australia. There will still be trees smoking, dead trees burning on the inside.”Trees like that are called “widow-makers” by older firefighters because they drop without warning.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2019 18:56 UTC