Residents warned it's 'too late to leave' parts of Australia's Victoria state as fires rage
Residents of several towns in the picturesque southeastern Australian state of Victoria are being warned to "take shelter indoors immediately," as devastating wildfires continue to rage across the region.
Tens of thousands of residents and people on vacation were urged to evacuate Sunday, as authorities had forecast that several factors could make it an incredibly dangerous day in terms of fire risk.
"The extreme fire dangers, the strong winds that were forecast, and the very hot temperatures have all come as we thought," Andrew Tupper of the Victoria Bureau of Meteorology said at a news conference on Monday.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/30/australia/australia-fires-evacuation-intl-hnk/index.html
Tens of thousands of residents and people on vacation were urged to evacuate Sunday, as authorities had forecast that several factors could make it an incredibly dangerous day in terms of fire risk.
"The extreme fire dangers, the strong winds that were forecast, and the very hot temperatures have all come as we thought," Andrew Tupper of the Victoria Bureau of Meteorology said at a news conference on Monday.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/30/australia/australia-fires-evacuation-intl-hnk/index.html
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