The Australian forest fires have become a major issue for Australia and world. The blazes have damaged lakhs of hectares of jungles and mountains including animals and civilizations living there. According to reports more than 500 million of wildlife died in the fire and 8 villagers also died. Rescue operations are being conducted by various countries like United States, Canada, China, France, India, Britain etc. and there are still 8 weeks are left till March and the fire can again start due to dryness and wind. 2019 was the most driest year of Australia till date.
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Three Americans have been killed while helping to battle Australian bushfire. Authority say they lost contact with an air tanker in Southern New South Wales, south of Canberra. The commissioner of New South Wales and rural forests said that - " It is still an active fire ground and it has to do take some time with the use of ground crews and the number of aerial surveillance platform to try and locate the wreckage of the plane".
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Large air tanker operations have now been suspended as police investigate what happened in the crash and what's the cause of cash but there's another reminder of the very difficult conditions that have been happening and also of the fact that the fires are still blazing, some of them are out of control, as we say 75 fires burning in New South Wales, 44 of those are not contained at the moment. So even though there is a moisture in the weather in the past few days the danger is yet not over in this bushfire season.
Let's see what the prime minister of Australia Scott Morrison has been tweeting
Deeply saddened to learn of the death of 3 people in the crash of a C130 fire fighting aircraft, north east of Cooma in NSW earlier today. My deepest condolences to the loved ones, friends and colleagues of those who have lost their lives. Such a terrible tragedy.— Scott Morrison (@ScottMorrisonMP) January 23, 2020
Close to the coast this time firefighter are backlinking a new bushfire that was picked up by high temperature and strong winds and more homes have been lost in this area.
Donations And Recovery Of Australia From Bushfires
All the times, everybody is focusing to recovery your efforts as we can see there are donations that are coming from around the world to help with the recovery. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been raised, some have gone to fire services and also animal welfare organisations.The Australian Red cross has raised over 79 million US dollars, the salvation army raised 30 million US dollars and Saint Vincent de Paul has raised 8 million US dollars. The charity had been accused of spending donations on administration cost and stocking money for future emergencies rather than what they meant for.
Well Red cross have defended itself saying that
The Red cross also said "we need to retain some funds... so when the world's attention turns away and the story moves on locals don't feel left behind".
This is our plan now based on what every bushfire-affected community we have ever worked with has told us it needs. We also know it costs us $5 million to keep our emergency teams in the field to respond to the fires that are ongoing and will burn until at least March. 3/4— Australian Red Cross (@RedCrossAU) January 23, 2020
Reportedly the American firefighters who died in air tanker crash have been identified. They were Captain Ian McBeth (45), flight engineer Rick A DeMorgan Jr (44) and first officer Paul Clyde Hudson (43) in New South Wales on Thursday.
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Cause of clash of C-130 Hercules is not known yet and New South Wales (NSW) premier Gladys Berejiklian calls it "unbelievable loss" and offered state memorial.
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