REUTERS Fire fighting crews from the Rural Fire Service (RFS), NSW Fire and Rescue and National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) officers fight a bushfire encroaching on properties near Lake Tabourie, Australia, December, 5, 2019. Thousands of weary firefighters, who have been battling bushfires for a month, were on Saturday fighting nearly 100 blazes in New South Wales state. The mega fire north of Sydney was created on Friday when several fires merged and was now burning across 335,000 hectares. That’s really what is going to stop it,” said the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. A three-year drought has left much of Australia tinder dry.

Source: Huffington Post December 07, 2019 09:45 UTC