Bushfires at Great Ocean Road, a tourist area in Australia, caused more than a hundred houses to burn down on Christmas Day despite the effort of about 500 firefighters and 13 firefighting aircrafts to stop the flames.
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A third of Wye River has been destroyed after the 2200-hectare Jamieson Track fire burnt through 98 homes, while nearby Separation Creek lost another 18.
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Emergency officials have warned that recent downpours would provide only temporary relief, as more extended periods of hot weather have been forecast.
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Victoria Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley said they were “working around the clock to bring this fire under control”.
The Great Ocean Road is one in every of Australia’s largest vacationer attracts with its spectacular surroundings and weird rock formations simply offshore in the Southern Ocean.
The fire has temporarily closed a section of the Great Ocean Road, which winds along Victoria’s coastline and past the region’s famed “Apostles” a collection of giant limestone stacks that jut dramatically out of the sea.
And tourists residents some 1,600 from the popular tourist area of Lorne were evacuated on Friday amid concerns wind change would shove the fire towards the town, but were permitted to return on Saturday.
“We will probably be again into scorching, windy climate in January for sure. Everything’s available to burn”.
“A significant number of houses are believed to be lost”, the spokesman told Reuters.
“The other issue today of course is smoke and what impact that will have in terms of those who’ve got underlying conditions”, Mr Andrews said.
Now, residents and officials in Victoria State are beginning to assess the scale of the damage and firefighters work to contain the still-raging fires.
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In February 2009, Victoria suffered the worst bushfires in the country’s history when 173 people were killed and hundreds were injured in multiple blazes across rural areas of the state.
