The disaster is the latest of a string of bushfires to hit Victoria and other states in recent weeks.
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A Christmas Day bushfire in southern Australia ravaged over 100 houses and forced thousands of people to evacuate, authorities said Saturday.
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98 homes were razed in the coastal town Wye River, with 18 more in nearby Separation Creek, bringing the destruction to a total of 116 along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, located 75 miles southwest of Melbourne.
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‘I would have thought they would have lost at least 200 homes in this town, ‘ Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley told reporters on Sunday.
“They walked away from the fire that had every potential to be a killer”, he said at a joint press conference with Andrews.
Hundreds of firefighters have been battling the blaze along the famous Great Ocean Road in Victoria’s south-west, popular with holidaymakers.
Residents were told they could go home after an evacuation recommendation was lifted shortly after 9am on Saturday. Although a change in the weather was predicted, emergency services said the threat was likely to remain for some time.
The fire could continue burning until January or February, with the dousing of rain on Saturday unlikely to do much in the long term once the state begins to dry out.
“The next belt of hot, windy weather will be the problem”, he said.
‘They were able to fight the fire in the streets in the afternoon, in the evening, and in the night’.
One lucky koala has escaped the bushfire raging at Wye River along the Great Ocean Road, as wildlife rescuers remain on standby for an influx of animals from the Victorian bushfires.
“We have 120-odd homes destroyed and a lot of people homeless, burnt their primary residences, which is a real concern for us”.
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Bushfires are a common feature of the Australian summer, with several people perishing so far this year from blazes across the country. In 2009, wildfires claimed 173 lives and destroyed over 2,000 homes in Victoria.
