Australia Fires Update Rain
However around 25 are yet to be contained.
Australia fires update rain. The cool weather that has brought relief to Victoria will continue on Monday with showers expected to give firefighters some respite before the heat returns later in the. Torrential rain across the east coast of Australia has extinguished a third of the fires in the region - and could put more out officials say. That particular fire burned 499621 hectares of land.
Regions along the New South Wales coast have received downpour that helped some parched areas and some active bushfires. Australia fires media caption Australias capital Canberra is engulfed in smoke Rain has fallen in fire-ravaged parts of Australia and temperatures have dropped - but officials have warned that. Thunderstorms and torrential rain have wreaked havoc in the fire-devastated states of New South Wales Queensland and Victoria.
Canberra airport closed reports of air tanker crash in NSW bushfires latest updates. New South Wales fire services nonetheless welcomed the rain which they said would help to control the 75 fires burning in the state. An elderly NSW man became the latest victim of Australias horror bushfire season on Sunday bringing the national death toll to 28.
This rain has been so welcome after the fires and the drought up here. Victorians have been given some relief as more bushfires have been brought under control and rain hit South Australia where 32 homes were destroyed. The Yarra River in Melbourne turns brown as dust in the rain pours in from the north.
Although rain fell on parts of the fire-ravaged areas in New South Wales and Victoria Australia and in some areas the rain was torrential officials are already warning residents that the fires and resultant smoke and aerosols will return to their former state with a vengeance by. According to New South Wales Rural Fire Service media officer James Morris the torrential rain helped put out the Currowan fire on Saturday. Australia is expected to get heavy rain this week but officials say it wont be enough to tamp down the raging wildfires that have gripped the country for months.
Storm flooding misery follow bushfires in Australia. A deluge is now falling on Australias. A wide band of rain sweeping New South Wales NSW.