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Fireys are being shipped across from Bundaberg to battle a massive bushfire that has been burning out of control for six weeks on Fraser Island.
This comes as Australia marches through yet another record-breaking heat wave, following the hottest November on record.
On Tuesday, the Queensland Government issued a “prepare to leave” warning for guests at the Kingfisher Bay Resort as blazes in several locations threatened the area.
Since then, the entire tourist spot has been evacuated, after emergency response crews were unable to put out the blaze that is likely a result of the weather being abnormally hotter than it ever has been before because of the planet’s accelerated consumption of fossil fuels, of which 30% of all global exports come from Australia.
The destruction of Fraser Island, which the Murdoch media and LNP claim has nothing to do with climate change and is purely a result of a campfire getting caught in the wind, marks the start of what could easily be yet another devastating summer of bushfires.
Australians, still weary from last year’s horror, look on with intrigue to see which parts of our poor continent has enough remaining vegetation to sustain anymore blazes.
The 2019-2020 bushfire season — known as Black Summer – was Australia’s worst, burning nearly 12 million hectares (30 million acres), directly killing at least 33 people and an estimated 1 billion animals.
However, it would seem not every single parcel of bushlands were destroyed last year, with plenty more of the Eastern Seaboard likely to burn this year as well!
“Should be interesting” says one Betoota Heights local, Bev (55).
“Fraser Island was definitely a surprise”
“I spose it makes sense, with climate change and all. The coral bleaches and the bushlands burn, uncontrollably”
