Australia Fires Update 2020. Compare the burn area of australia's fires to the 2019 amazon blazes and the california wildfires. Jason gale, january 3, 2020, 11:43 pm est.
Learn about the fire causes, locations and other. Fires continued to rage in australia into 2020, causing fatalities and compromising air quality. In june 2019, the queensland fire and emergency service acting director warned of the potential for an early start to the bushfire season which normally starts in august.
A helicopter dumps water on a fire in victoria’s east gippsland region on dec.
Severe drought and hot, dry winds are escalating the problem. Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades, with large swaths of the country devastated since the fire season began in july. At least 3,500 homes and thousands of other buildings were lost and 34 people died in the thousands of fires between september 2019 and march 2020. News corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.