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Tim Curran is an American author of horror fiction from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. His works include the novels Skin Medicine, Hive, Dead Sea, Resurrection, Skull Moon, The Devil Next Door, and Biohazard.

Australia fires: What is being done to fight the flames?

Feb 16,2020 10:05 am

Large parts of Australia has been destroyed by the worst forest fires in the country for decades, with huge blazes tearing through Bush, forest and national parks.

record-breaking temperatures and months of drought have contributed to The Fire burning an estimated 10 million hectares (100,000 square km) of land since 1. July.

What do the Australian authorities, The Fire stopped and all that could have been done to prevent it?

fighting fires is a big and dangerous task,

thousands of firefighters blazes to fight in Australia , ranging in size from small fire to Inferno to burn through acres of land.

" Whole cities were swallowed up, and the residents of several States have already lost their homes. At least 30 people have died.

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will be displayed in The Last couple of months, state and Federal authorities work together to try to prevent the spread of the fires. While they have managed to contain within a matter of days, the largest fires were burning for months.

But the task of the suppression of The Flames was dangerous to lose with four firefighters and three US crew members of an air tanker in your life.

the officials lost contact with a C-130 Hercules water-bombing aircraft on Thursday crashed in the Snowy Mountains in The State of New South Wales (NSW). The Cause of The Crash is not yet known.

Although the recent cooler temperatures and rain brought a respite to the operations, the burn More Than 80 fire still in New South Wales .

Hot forecast and windy conditions again This Week .

Many people are involved in the battle

at least 3700 firefighters on the ground at any time throughout the country during the worst periods, according to the country's state fire Department were. Most of them were in the worst-affected States of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria.

If the fires were fought at the worst, around 2,700 firefighters, blazes at any one time in New South Wales .

But in The Last few days, More Than 1,100 firefighters were on the ground, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service says.

Ben Shepherd , from the service, said his colleagues would be treated 4. 2m acres of burning land in this season, compared to the typical 300,000 hectares.

"It was an incredibly long struggle," he said.

fire crews across the country to 3,000 army, navy and Air Force joined forces reservists, the support in search and rescue and clean-up efforts.

Additional support came from the USA, Canada and New Zealand , the help sent additional teams and equipment to.

you use a lot of kit

firefighters are using a combination of aircraft and land-based equipment to fight the fires.

New South Wales Rural Fire Service says it has over 100 flights in the sky Every Day , when the fires are bad, while Victoria's Country Fire Authority says it has More Than 60.

they include helicopter, fixed-wing aircraft and larger air tankers, most of which can be used to "firebomb" the water on fire, or drop retardant from the sky above.

in Total, according to The National Aerial firefighting centre, which contribute, through its own fleet of over 130 aircraft ready to help, a state's response, if required.

the Prime Minister , Scott Morrison , the $14m lease of fire-fighting aircraft from overseas is required.

On the floor, the teams with The Fire -fighting trucks and "heavy plant" equipment, such as bulldozers and excavators, the earth, the clear areas of debris and create "breaks" - gaps in vegetation that help slow down the advance of The Flames .

New South Wales Rural Fire Service says it has More Than 750 vehicles on the ground by The Fire are the worst.

military planes and Navy cruisers are also used, in addition to the Australian fire service kit.

But the government has criticism for his response

The Prime Minister - an avid supporter of the country, the coal Industry has to be expected in the face of fierce criticism over his apparent failure to accept The Crisis , its slow response to the disaster, and his reluctance, a connection between the Bush fires and Climate Change .

Mr Morrison was forced to apologise for going on A Family vacation to Hawaii in The Last month, as The Crisis escalated, and he was expressed

In response, the Australian leader of his regret over his handling of The Crisis and said he would seek a Royal Commission - a kind of public investigation - in the country-answer. He has also promised A$2 billion ($1. 4bn; £1. 1 billion) in aid to the country prompted the

But the Prime Minister is to recover, to do more, to cut Australia 's carbon dioxide emissions and to combat Climate Change , the country will see average temperatures rise.

The latest figures from Australia 's Bureau of Meteorology show in 2019 the country.

The conditions were caused by a climate phenomenon called a positive, which was unusually strong, pushed the weather systems to the North, as well as the Climate Change , The Bureau said.

Last year, the annual average temperature was 1. 52 degrees Celsius above the average of 1961-1990 21. 8C, higher than the previous record of 1. 33 degrees Celsius in the year 2013.

in Australia , published warned last year that the warming temperatures meant that there had been a "long-term increase in extreme fire weather", as well as an expansion in the "length of The Fire season".

But the warnings of the Australian increased fire risk have been in place since 1988, and a 2007 report by the Australian Federal science agency would have previously seen said intense fires by 2020, says Dr Tim Curran , a senior lecturer in ecology at Lincoln University in New Zealand .

The extent and the intensity of this year's fires, and the fact that you are now means more of a ubiquitous phenomenon that the Australian authorities may take further measures to prepare, in the coming years.

Professor Dale Dominey-Howes, Director of the Asia-Pacific Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Research Group at the University of Sydney, argues that the actions of the current wildfire Crisis -and the fact of concern to several States and territories at the same time they represent a "new normal", and the government had to.

"We need new approaches to disaster Management -professional, paid work forces in the location, around The Clock , around the year and around the country-providing, the response to several types of disaster," he says.



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