“Everything Is Burning”: Australian Inferno Choking Off Access to Cities Across Country
By Eoin Higgins
Australia is on fire.
The country on Saturday saw delayed flights on the second day of a national state of emergency due to raging brushfires near every major city and choked out smoke conditions.
Australian reporter Saffron Howden used a map from the Government of Western Australia to show how the blazes have ringed the entire continent.
“My god,” Howden tweeted.
My god pic.twitter.com/hfmqN7eL2Z
— Saffron Howden (@saffronhowden) December 21, 2019
The fires in Australia’s southeastern state of New South Wales (NSW) were at the “catastrophic” level on Saturday, according to the BBC.
“These fires are likely to continue to spread well past Christmas,” said NSW Rural Fire Services Inspector Ben Shepherd.
Photos shared on social media showed hazy skies around the country.
“Everything is burning,” said one Twitter user.
A few minutes ago, no filter. Everything is burning pic.twitter.com/9TDtimjt0L
— shorewife🎄 (@Shorewife) December 21, 2019
Australia’s fires more than 25 times the size of the California fires & more than 3 times the size of the Amazon fires & still burning out of control… major fires now only an hour’s drive from Sydney.
The world media is not covering the scope of this…
Please share this❤ pic.twitter.com/Vd59PD3PFY— ♣️🎲John🎲♣️ (@SunsTingz) December 19, 2019
Fires the size of Kansas… (picture taken Thursday on Sydney Harbour) pic.twitter.com/57U4TDUL2G
— Josh (@jgrclarke) December 21, 2019
As Common Dreams reported Thursday, Australia just endured a heat wave that broke records for temperature in consecutive days.
“I think this is the single loudest alarm bell I’ve ever heard on global heating,” said Kees van der Leun, a director at the American consultancy firm Navigant.
Temperatures dropped on the back of a cooling wind on Saturday, but, as The Guardian reported, the wind brings with it other problems:
A southerly change swept through at 5pm, making the fire even more erratic and changing the fire direction. Around this time, NSW authorities began warning of a bushfire-generated thunderstorm that had formed over Currowan and Tianjara fires in the Shoalhaven area, on the NSW south coast.
The fire service said this would lead to increasingly dangerous fire conditions. Such storms, known as pyroCB, can produce embers hot enough to spark new fires 30km from the main fire.
While his country was on fire, right-wing climate-denying Prime Minister Scott Morrison was on vacation in Hawaii. Morrison returned to Australia on Saturday after two firefighters died fighting one of three huge blazes near Sydney. Morrison’s absence during the crisis pprovoked outcry from constituents.
One Twitter user posted a picture showing from above the blazes around Sydney as Morrison was arriving in the city, reportedly after circling for an hour due to runway closures.
What Scott Morrison saw landing into Sydney tonight, after an hour delay because of runway closures #auspol pic.twitter.com/qUDTLDzLaw
— Terry Australis ++ Noisy Australian (@AustralisTerry) December 21, 2019
A map of the city showed only two routes out of Sydney due to the fires.
There are now only 2 routes out of Sydney. Every other road is blocked by fire. pic.twitter.com/Njx6LveYKq
— David Morgan-Mar (@dmmaus) December 21, 2019
“Today has been an awful day,” NSW Rural Fire Services Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmon told reporters.
Fitzsimmon added that the fires were largely out of any meaningful control barring nature taking a hand.
“We will not get on top of these fires until we get some decent rain—we have said that for weeks and months,” said Fitzsimmon.
According to Reuters, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has reported there will be no significant rainfall in the country for at least the next two months.
By Eoin Higgins | CommonDreams.org | Creative Commons
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Hottest temperatures on record. Global warming? Bull S#1t.
See a story from the other day on BIN.
/energy/2019/12/has-australia-just-had-its-hottest-day-evah-2469647.html
Yes. We live on the Central East Coast and the Sun is just a dull Orange ball in the sky. Driving at night is really difficult, because your headlights just reflect back at you, through the smoke.
It’s like the sky is on fire. At night, the sky is a bright Red glow, like reflecting Hell itself. All you can smell is the smell of Eucalyptus burning. My utility is covered in gray ash and black burnt Eucalyptus leaves.
The pool water is black with ash and burnt leaves. I can’t top up the pool, because we’re on water restrictions and I can’t turn on the pool pump, because the water level is below the pump pickup level.
It’s just Hell on Earth. With no rain forecast for, well we don’t know.
“Change is happening and you are going to witness it become increasingly more intense. Fire and the other elements are Gaia’s tools for clearing old and dense energy. Know that the many dear ones suffering from these things at this time volunteered to go through this–not consciously, but pre-birth. Fire is a powerful tool for clearing old energy, allowing and often even forcing a person to examine their belief system with new eyes.” http://onenessofall.com/2019-3.html Nov 3 2019 msg