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Australian wildfires destroy at least 20 homes
2014-02-09 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: More than 30 homes have been razed in the worst fire conditions Australia has seen since a 2009 inferno killed 173 people, with flames threatening the country's second-largest city, officials said Monday. Hot, dry winds and soaring temperatures fanned scores of major blazes across the southeast on Sunday, with Victoria state sweltering through its worst fire risk weather in five years. "They were ferocious fires, they ran hard, they hit homes," said fire commissioner Craig Lapsley. The emergency...
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