Aerial night video shot from above the town of Mallacoota in southeastern Australia shows the breadth of immense bushfires which have scorched more than 5.25 million hectares of land since the bushfire season began last August |
In the town of Mallacoota, residents and tourists hemmed to the foreshore since New Year's Eve fires clambered aboard landing craft with family, pets and a few belongings.
Aerial night video shot from above Mallacoota on 31 December shows the breadth of the immense fires burning near the isolated town. Thousands of tourists, heeding that warning, abandoned their summer holidays on a popular 300-kilometre length of the southeastern coastline, prompting queues of cars stretching toward Sydney and Canberra.
New South Wales Transport Minister Andrew Constance called it the "largest evacuation of people out of the region ever". "Every resource is being used, that's the thing. There's so much fire on the ground that you've got to use every resource. We don't have enough trucks to be everywhere."
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