NEWS: Australian Towns Urged To Evacuate Before Christmas As Bushfires Intensify

Australian Towns Urged To Evacuate Before Christmas As Bushfires Intensify

Residents in an Australian region engulfed by bushfires were given two hours on Tuesday to return home and collect their belongings before Christmas.

However, communities around the Grampians, in Victoria have been evacuated amid warnings from authorities that conditions there in the days ahead could be the worst since Australia’s most severe fire season on record, the so-called “Black Summer” of 2019-20.

The bushfires burnt over 41,000 hectares (101,000 acres) of land in…

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