HEALESVILLE, Australia – A police spokeswoman says the death toll from wildfires that have swept Australia's southeast has risen to 65.
The toll from firestorms in southern Victoria state climbed steadily Sunday as emergency crews reached further into a huge burnt-out area.
Officials say at least 640 houses were destroyed in Saturday's blazes, and that tally was expected to rise.
Victoria state police spokeswoman Creina O'Grady said the latest death toll on Sunday evening was 65.
Australia's worst wildfire tragedy was in 1983, when 75 people were killed in two states.
AP's earlier story is below.
HEALESVILLE, Australia (AP) — Towering flames razed an entire town in southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents alive in their cars, authorities said Sunday as the death toll from the country's worst fire disaster in a quarter-century reached 49. Please read more....
5 comments:
so devastating to hear some stories... nothing left of the whole small town of Marysville Victoria just ashes and smoke are the only exiated now, the whole town just vanished... there are at least 46 bushfires here in NSW too but luckily not too dangerous.
it is so sad to see the victims and the remains of their property. this deadliest bushfire claims 108 lives already as of morning today and still continue to threaten some towns in Victoria.
I just hope this bushfires around NSW will not get worse as there are about 150 NSW firefighters are currently helping in Victoria.
The death toll surpasses that from the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires, in which 75 people died in Victoria and South Australia , and the Black Friday bushfires of 1939, which killed 71.
i saw this in the news just now.. ive never been to australia. but grabe! it's like the flashfloods here in manila.
this is the worst natural disaster in Australian history. The death toll reaches now to 181.
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