my country is burning
ok, this is a serious issue right now in australia!
More than 150 fires continue to burn across New South Wales, Authorities has issued emergency alerts for only 10 of those fires. The towns that are most concerned fires burning on the NSW South Coast including Nowra and Eden, Also concerns in the Snowy Mountains and The Southern Highlands.
In Victoria, about 50 fires continue to burn, mostly in the states North-East and Alpine area. Emergency warnings were active for 12 of those fires at 11pm, the only good news is that authorities revised the number of missing persons from 28 to six, both of the fires in NSW & VIC have destroyed more than 1,500 homes and claimed 23 lives so far. Significant Power Outages were experienced across the two states as well. Now on to South Australia
In South Australia, there were two confirmed fatalities, on Kangaroo Island. A Father and Son. With the blaze also wiping out much of the national park about 170,000 hectares, or a third of the island has burned so far.
In Western Australia, the town of Norseman at the junction of the Coolgardie - Esperance and Eyre Highways is today facing 5th straight day of full road closure to Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Norseman, Esperance and to the South Australian Border, About 175 emergency services personally are battling the blazes and more than 320,000 acres have so far been destroyed. Parts of the town resembled “tent city” because of the stuck truck drivers and tourists, the department of fire and emergency services deputy commissioner said two trucks had left Esperance yesterday to supply food and water to Norseman and Roadhouses.
The 2019-20 Australian bushfires season has burned an estimated 12,350,000 acres of land have burned across Australia.
Millions of animals are dead and hundreds of thousands more will perish over coming days as a result of killer bushfires, In University of Sydney ecologists, earlier this week that bushfires are likely to have killed 500 millions animals since September. Native wildlife and agricultural livestock are among the fatalities, with already endangered species at greater risks of extinction, the extent of the carnage may never be known.
A state of disaster has been declared for six local government areas and three alpine resorts in Victoria, and a state of emergency has been declared in NSW.
Help the Firefighters
Donations to the NSW Rural Fire Service directly benefit the volunteer firefighters on the frontline. To help, you can contact your local brigade directly or donate here
https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/about-us/fundraising
You can also donate to the young families of Geoffrey Keaton and Andrew O’Dwyer, who were killed during the Green Wattle Creek fire, and Samuel McPaul, who was killed at the Green Valley fireground
http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/news-and-media/general-news/featured/support-for-firefighter-families
For those interested in supporting the efforts of Victorian firefighters, you can donate to the state’s Country Fire Association
https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/about/supporting-cfa#donate-cfa
Help the Wildlife:
To help the NSW wildlife victims, you can donate to the NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES)
https://www.wires.org.au/donate/emergency-fund
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital
More than 2000 koalas are feared to have perished in NSW since September.
The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital have raised more than $2 million for the wildlife affected in that area, with the initial aim of using the money to distribute automatic drinking stations in the burnt areas to help in koala and wildlife survival.
The organisation are now sharing the funds with other wildlife organisations in the fire affected regions across NSW. You can donate
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires
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jade 💞
