Fire started on Monday
Australian authorities ordered the removal of about 1,500 people in the south of the country, due to a forest fire that has already destroyed about 65,000 hectares of land.
The fire began on Monday, during an extreme hot day in southern Australia, in Little Desert National Park, a dry zone covered with shrubs.
Authorities asked about 1,500 residents of the city closest to the fire, Dimboola, to leave their homes on Monday night.
Already this Tuesday, the emergency teams of the State of Victoria sent a message sent to those who preferred to stay home: “It is in danger and needs to act immediately to survive. The safest option is to take shelter in a closed place immediately. It’s too late to leave. “
Victoria’s Prime Minister Jacinta Allan told reporters that there were no reports of victims, but that the flames burned at least one building, while hundreds of firefighters were on the scene fighting the fire in difficult conditions.
“We still have many weeks of a long, hot summer ahead and the forecast for the future is that there will be several very difficult and dangerous days ahead,” Allen said, according to ABC public television.
The fires time in Australia varies depending on the region and weather conditions, but usually occurs during the summer of the southern hemisphere between December and March.
At the beginning of the season, in December, fires near a national park in the state of Victoria burned 74,000 hectares of forest, an area equivalent to Singapore, said Victoria’s deputy chief of the regional government, Ben Carrol.
Between 2019 and 2020, at least 33 people died in fires that devastated much of the states of Victoria and Nova Wales of the South.
The fires at that time affected millions of animals and destroyed about three thousand homes and 180,000 square kilometers of forest in the country of Oceania.
