Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Bush Fire Crisis in Victoria, Australia (Update) (Day 4 and 5)

Okay,
Sorry for not updating this piece of news yesterday as I was really busy trying to get maths in my head. Really tiring all those numbers and symbols just makes you wanna stop everything and head out for a walk. Honestly it was really tiring.

Enough of that.
Bush Fire update....
Well you can't expect good news i suppose because the fires are still going around and destroying everything they touch. Even though the temperature is like 20 degrees Celsius the land is still dry and everything catches fire easily. It is believed that arsonist are responsible for most of the bush fire.

This is really shocking. I mean seriously why would someone actually place so many lives on the line just to obtain their dose of adrenaline rush and excitement. Not only lives are lost but but many wildlife were killed in this fire because of this people. Being a very dry country during summer made matters worst. The wildlife that survived are now facing shortage of food and water. Many of them needed help from the vets to treat their burn wounds. Just looking at their hopelessness is really painful.

The death toll now stands at around 200 people and it is expected to escalate to 300. With more then 1033 homes burned down and over 250000 hectares of forest were also swallowed by the fire. However, this is far from over as many more bodies are yet to be discovered and the disaster is still far from over.

That's all.
Hopefully i can update this tomorrow.

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