Australian Bushfires Force Evacuations
Australian bushfires are heating up (from Radio New Zealand):
Four major bushfires in the Australian state of Victoria have forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents.Eleven communities which are directly in the path of a massive bushfire in the west of the state have now been placed on high alert.
The blaze in the Grampians National Park has burnt through 120,000 hectares of bush and farmland, and destroyed 24 homes.
It is expected to intensify as soaring temperatures combine with high winds. Many residents have already evacuated and those remaining have been warned to maintain a constant vigil.
I don't have time to do the exact conversion on the acreage, but it is somewhere over 250,000 acres!
