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Australia urges quarter of a million to flee as winds fan huge bushfires
reuters.com ^ | January 10, 2020 | Martin Petty, Swati Pandey

Posted on 01/10/2020 1:39:35 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Australia urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes on Friday and prepared military backup as authorities said the next few hours could be “very, very challenging” even as rain poured down in some parts.

Defense personnel stood ready to move to bushfire grounds if conditions became extreme, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters, as soaring temperatures and erratic winds create dangerous conditions.

“Even with rain in Melbourne, even with forecast better conditions next week, there is a long way to go in what has been an unprecedented fire event...and, of course, we know that we have many weeks of the fire season to run,” Daniel Andrews, the premier of Victoria, told a televised briefing.

“The next few hours are going to be very, very challenging.”

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1 posted on 01/10/2020 1:39:35 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Mega blaze likely on Friday evening
2 posted on 01/10/2020 1:44:09 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Australians cheer US firefighters
3 posted on 01/10/2020 1:49:55 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Australia bushfires live: There’s now what media (but not RFS) refer to as a megablaze in the Kosciuszko national park
4 posted on 01/10/2020 1:52:48 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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The Australian navy delivered 800 gallons of beer
5 posted on 01/10/2020 1:57:09 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Watch ABC News live
6 posted on 01/10/2020 2:01:15 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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#australianfires lang:en
7 posted on 01/10/2020 2:06:46 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Has anyone heard from Naturalman lately?


8 posted on 01/10/2020 2:20:03 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How did these fires start? Does anyone know?


9 posted on 01/10/2020 2:21:01 AM PST by RichardMoore (Without the protection of life all other right are void, dump TV and follow a plant based diet)
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The homeless mayor deblowjob shipped from NYC


10 posted on 01/10/2020 2:28:11 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: RichardMoore

Some naturally - lightening etc, some accidentally and some lit on purpose but we are yet to hear much about the latter here. A report I think from the UK that 200 people had been arrested hasn’t been confirmed here and the number would seem excessive.The question though is how many of those would be fire bugs verses a) Muslims or b) Climate loonies out to prove their point! I have little to no faith in the media telling us if there is any indication that these fires were lit with intent!


11 posted on 01/10/2020 2:33:21 AM PST by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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When you look at the map you can see that the fires go all the way around the outside of the continent. That seems very suspect.
Many years ago my son was headed to vacation in the Philippines. So I looked up the news there and found that our Navy had the southern island surrounded because Al-keida was there. Apparently two Americans had been kidnapped and murdered there. But there was no mention in the western press.
12 posted on 01/10/2020 2:41:30 AM PST by RichardMoore (Without the protection of life all other right are void, dump TV and follow a plant based diet)
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TBH there is not much that much to burn in the interior of the country it is mostly desert. All the green areas are near the coast!


13 posted on 01/10/2020 2:46:16 AM PST by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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The question the media is afraid to ask...........mooselimbs.


14 posted on 01/10/2020 3:05:07 AM PST by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: ComputerGuy
Has anyone heard from Naturalman lately?

He's still posting.

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:naturalman1975/index?brevity=full;tab=comments

15 posted on 01/10/2020 3:12:26 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Seems to be getting worse each day.


16 posted on 01/10/2020 4:07:58 AM PST by dearolddad
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Millions urged to move into Big City high rise dense coffin apartments.

We are burning you out of flyover country, says the Govt.

We need no schtinking Electoral College.


17 posted on 01/10/2020 4:13:36 AM PST by TheNext (Universal Skeptic)
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Thanks


18 posted on 01/10/2020 4:21:54 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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