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Not receiving help. The severe warning from firefighters as bushfires 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. Ben shepherd joins us from the Rural Fire Service headquarters in sydney. Thank you very much for your time, i appreciate this is a busy day for you. Could you start by bringing us up to date with the latest . We still have some 70 fires burning across New South Wales and more than 40 across New South Wales and more than a0 of them i get to be brought under control. We are talking about a massive area we are dealing with, some 600 or 700,000 hectares of bushland that is a light. So we are having to deal with that ahead of these worsening conditions on tuesday. So
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
As a powerful cyclone moves in. 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. Thirteen hundred firefighters, backed by water bombing aircraft, are tackling dozens of fires in baking temperatures. Officials in New South Wales say a hundred and fifty homes have burned down. The bbcs freya cole has been keeping up to date with the situation there. Has been some relief tonight and firefighters are trying to get on top of it dont get me wrong, there are hundreds of fires burning across queensland and New South Wales and as we keep hearing, the worst is yet to come. On tuesday, australia is expecting conditions, high temperatures, strong winds, high temperatures, strong winds, high temperatures of around a0 degrees and that fire threat extend
We will start with those fires in australia and a warning. 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. We know there are 1300 firefighters out there. They are entering their third day fighting this bushfire emergency. As we have heard from the Rural Fire Service and as you have just said, tuesday is expected to be a holiday. Let us take a listen to what ben shepherd said just a short time ago. We are talking about a massive area here now that were with. Some six or 700 thousa