With more than a hundred bushfires burning, record breaking temperatures and extreme winds, New South Wales, australias most heavily populated state, has declared a 7 day state of emergency. Two volunteer firefighters have been killed in a road crash near sydney. Temperatures as high as 47 celsius are expected at the weekend. And Prime Minister Scott Morrison is taking some criticism for being on holiday as the crisis unfolds. Hes now released a statement saying, i express my sincere condolences and sympathies to the families of the firefighters who have so tragically been killed overnight, and adds that he will be returning to sydney from leave as soon as can be arranged. With more on the bushfire emergency, our science editor, david shukman. A roar like a jet engine as the flames advance. A line of trees is suddenly ablaze. In record heat and parched conditions, at least 50 of the fires are out of control. Lets get out of here, bro. This is an emergency on dozens of fronts. House by
Worth of rain fell in a single day. Welcome to the programme. We will start in australia with those wildfires. And a pretty serious warning, actually. leave your homes for safety or risk not receiving help. The severe warning from firefighters as bush fires continue to ravage the east coast of australia. At least three people have died and there are fears the number of casualties could rise. Weather forecasters say more bad weather is on the way. 1,300 firefighters, backed by water bombing aircraft, are tackling dozens of fires in baking temperatures. Officials in New South Wales say 150 homes have burned down. With me is our News Reporter freya cole who has experience reporting on bushfires in australia. Freya, thank you for being with us. Bring us up to date. Freya, thank you for being with us. Bring us uptodate. There has been some relief overnight on the weather. Firefighters are doing what they can today to get on top of this bushfire disaster but dont get me wrong, the risk is fa
Charlestown township. You can see in these pictures from the scene the flames shooting through the roof. Now that fire grew to about two alarms at one point but it is now under control. Three firefighters are at the hospital. Authorities have not said anything about their injuries or conditions, what happened and we dont yet know what started that fire. We do have a crew on the scene went will bring you more as the news comes in. Right now at 10 00 volatile winter set sets up potentially dangerous morning. We got smacked with more snow this weekend but todays relatively warm temperatures melted a lot of it but thats not necessarily great news. Things are about to get very cold again. And that means all that melted snow will soon turn into ice making for slick roads for your back to work and back to school drive. Good evening. Im luce kneel land. Im iain page little break from that bitter cold but thats all over now. Lets get you straight over to meteorologist caitlin roth now for the f
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