Australian forest fires continue to rage

Forest fires have always been a part of Australia's natural ecology, but this year's forest fires continue to rag. "Disaster" fires once threatened 6 million residents and caused the closure of about 600 schools. Forest fires of this scale have attracted much attention.

Since NSW entered the forest fire season this year, the area under fire has exceeded 1 million hectares, far exceeding the average over the years. According to the NSW Rural Fire Bureau announcement on the 16th, six people have been killed and 412 houses have been destroyed since the start of the forest fire season this year.

Forest fires continued to burn in parts of adjacent Queensland. As of the 17th, at least 14 houses in Queensland had been destroyed, and a fire fighting helicopter crashed, but fortunately no one died. At the same time, the Australian Meteorological Department issued a storm alert on the 17th, predicting that there could be a destructive gale with hail in southeast Queensland that day. David Bowman, director of the Fire Research Centre at the University of Tasmania in Australia, said in an interview that the scale of forest fires in Australia has been unprecedented since the beginning of this year. He believes this and global warming are " Coincide ".

Bowman said that it is currently in the traditional Australian forest fire season, and strong winds and high temperature and dry weather have appeared before, but a variety of extreme weather occurred at the same time, accompanied by the frequent occurrence of such large-scale forest fires, showing the Australian climate pattern Has changed.

Jianshen tank prayed that Australia's long-lasting catastrophic forest fire could be brought under control and that local economic production would be restored as soon as possible.