A large-scale evacuation is taking place on the South-East coast of Australia in connection with the raging fires in the country, Report informs citing the foreign press.
According to the TV channel, Victorian authorities ordered all the tourists to leave the state. The emergency management commissioner, Andrew Crisp, issued the order on Sunday ahead of what the Bureau of Meteorology has called one of the “significant fire weather days in Victoria’s history.” Residents will also have to leave the areas where the fire may reach as soon as possible. In total, the authorities intend to evacuate about four thousand people. Notably, a million hectares of land have already burned in Australia. Recently, the fire has claimed the lives of 17 people, destroyed a thousand homes. According to some estimates, eight thousand koalas and hundreds of thousands of other animals died as a result of fires.