what part of australia is the fire?
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The fires are concentrated along Australia's southeast coast, in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. The southeast is the most severely affected, but fires have also hit every Australian state and territory this season.
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Australia: Fires worsen and reach Melbourne suburbs. ... An emergency warning was issued in three northern suburbs of the eastern Australian city of Melbourne on Monday as fires continue to burn across the states of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.
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A man in Lake Conjola, Australia, tried to defend a property on Tuesday as fire consumed the house next door. This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia's history, with at least 15 people killed, hundreds of homes destroyed and millions of acres burned. And summer is far from over.
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The most obvious way to communicate the scale of a fire disaster — and compare it to other fires — is by focusing on the area of land the fire that has burned. According to the Department of Home Affairs, to date more than 12.6 million hectares across Australia have been burned.
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Officials In Australia's New South Wales Celebrate: 'All Fires Are Now Contained' Firefighters spray water on a smoldering tree in the wake of a bushfire near Bumbalong in New South Wales, Australia. February has brought much-needed rain to the state, where fires have burned about 13.3 million acres of land.
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In northern NSW large fires are burning in the region between Port Macquarie and Byron Bay. Further south there are fears that the vast Gospers Mountain fire, which originated in the Wollemi National Park, may merge with the Green Wattle Creek blaze in the lower Blue Mountains.
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While fire in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to the capital city, has spread to more than 55,000 hectares (136,000 acres), close to a quarter of the territory's entire landmass, the heat fuelling the danger is subsiding.
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About 40 bushfires are burning across the state following a heatwave, said Queensland Fire and Emergency Services. The most serious blaze, 450km (280 miles) north of Brisbane, has destroyed at least two homes, damaged four others and prompted evacuation orders.
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Since September, at least 27 million acres of Australia have burned in one of the country's worst fire seasons on record. That's an area larger than Portugal, and more than 14 times the area that burned in California in 2018, the state's most destructive year for wildfires.
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Australia fires: New South Wales blazes all 'contained' All of the bushfires in New South Wales (NSW) are now considered contained, say fire officials in the Australian state. The NSW Rural Fire Service said it was "great news" after "a very traumatic, exhausting and anxious" time.
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Australia fires: British firefighters to assist with clean-up. A group of about 300 serving and retired firefighters are heading to Australia to help rebuild communities hit by bushfires.
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'It's heart-wrenching': 80% of Blue Mountains and 50% of Gondwana rainforests burn in bushfires. At least 80% of the Blue Mountains world heritage area and more than 50% of the Gondwana world heritage rainforests have burned in Australia's ongoing bushfire crisis.
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Currently, fires are largely burning across the states of Victoria, where Melbourne is; New South Wales, where Sydney is; and South Australia, where Adelaide is.
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At least 33 people have died in bushfires in Australia since the summer season began in October. The death toll is highest in NSW, where 25 people have been confirmed dead since October. Victoria has had five confirmed deaths and South Australia three.
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Australia storms: Huge hail causes chaos in two cities Storms have brought heavy rain to fire-hit regions of eastern Australia - but authorities warn the nation's bushfire crisis is still "far from over". More than 80 blazes were still burning across New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria on Monday, despite downpours.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Wildfires that began in September, consumed millions of acres of forest and burned through beachside towns and suburbs are finally out in most of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, emergency services said Friday.
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February has brought much-needed rain to the state, where fires have burned about 13.3 million acres of land. Fire officials in Australia are celebrating a landmark moment, saying that for the first time in what has been a horrendous wildfire season, every fire in hard-hit New South Wales is now under control.