More than 4,000 trapped on Aussie beach told to put on life jackets and jump in sea as deadly bushfires turn sky red

thesun.co.uk ^ | 31 Dec 2019 | Mark Hodge

[Berlin_Freeper]

THOUSANDS of people who were warned to flee an Aussie town are trapped on the beach ready to jump into the sea to escape the deadly bushfires.

Around 4,000 people are still in Mallacoota, in Victoria in the south east of the country which is battling terrifying infernos sparked by a record-breaking 40C heatwave, authorities said.

[Berlin_Freeper]

requests had been made for 70 firefighters from the United States and Canada to be flown in to help local crews.

[Lean-Right]

I worked for 10+ years in
Houston. The humidity at
times was unbearable. I
departed a plane in Pheonix
where it was 112 deg at midnight.
Australia will survive. They’re
tough and know what to expect.
Hot is Hot.

[Jed Eckert]

The thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When it comes at you it doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites you, and those black eyes roll over white.............that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again.
- Capt. Quint- in Jaws

[heavy metal]

send elisabeth warren there to perform a rain dance...

[mdmathis6]

Don’t sharks like to frequent off certain Australian beaches? If its that bad then their coast guard needs to come pick the people up.

[Oldexpat]

Where are those big amphibious ships they have?

[wastoute]

I grew up in New Mexico. One hundred and four is normal. Stay in the shade.

[wastoute]

Interesting article I read yesterday about a piece on CLimate Change that the “Journals” refused to publish “because we can’t find an editor with the necessary expertise”. Turns out all the climate models were essentially stolen from the physicists by people who were to incompetent with the math to use them properly. The guy had reviewed every important “climate” article for decades and showed that they had all made the same mistake compounding errors over time because they didn’t know what they were doing. He even showed their data wouldn’t get the results they claimed because in several cases they had clearly “fudged the data” to get the result they wanted.

Turns out “global climate change” is a hoax propagated by their own incompetence.

[Chickensoup]

have british firefighters been responding?

[Mr170IQ]

You can see the map of the wildfires at

https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/

I see that there is only two small fires near Melbourne, where I have some family. It does look pretty damn bad.

[Hot Tabasco]

If anyone would like to read this:

I tried but it doesn't make any sense. Why did you post it?

[wastoute]

Dr. Patrick Frank is his name.

[ronnie raygun]

fire, uh jellyfish, sharks ok

[eartick]

That is a lot of rabbits, dang.

[eartick]

Yeah that is what I was thinking, chumming.

[dfwgator]

“Humans are friends, not food!”

[eartick]

many summers in Phoenix- THAT gets hot

Yeah hot. I was there one summer and put on my seat belt/shoulder restraint. It did not take me long to pop them off. The shoulder restraint felt like it was branding me.

I am from S Texas where we see heat but not like this.

[dfwgator]

In the water, they can be picked up by boats. Is anybody sending boats?

They're gonna need a bigger boat.

[dfwgator]

How can we sleep while our beds are burning?

[polymuser]

That’s a lot of fires. Sad for those affected, for sure, like in Ca.