24 charged with intentionally setting Australia bushfires www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/australia-bushfires-24-charged/507-774822af-2866-4b8b-aaa7-917a61eb8368?fbclid=IwAR3-JqmSs6c3ffYCAg2UtzBVem6T2OrnRFTSH922IfhfX5rcNRfVW5elCEE
Marvin Martian...not true, there are a range of factors involved not least of which is climate change. The periods between seasons where they can do back burning is decreasing each year. This means it is becoming really hard to do effective back burning to reduce dry fuels. This is cause by the climate changing. And what we know is that 2019 was the dryest year on record in Australia. Also over the last 100 years if you look at graphs of the average temperatures there has been a steady rise in temperature at this time of year (starting from 1902- now)and lately the fire seasons have been longer (starting early and finishing later). From an Australian...please do your homework before commenting, peace ✌️
RikJ Stop it. I have relatives that are in some of these areas. They were stoped while back burning two years ago. Given a huge fine and told never to do it again. They have owned the property for three generations. Never been a fire there until now. Climate has zero to do with it. I’ve read articles that say the exact opposite to what you are. So who should I pick between your post or those I know and trust? So please do your homework? Lol.
Thank you very much to the American and Canadian fire fighters who helped us here in Australia. Especially to the the people who lost their life’s in the fire bomber plane crash .RIP
@@adamblyth9972 Nah Adam, Western Australia is the biggest state in Australia, and the most beautiful. I have visited WA a number of times and I am amazed at the diversity and beauty of your state.
Japete Yeah because if we stop the carbon then what happens to the plants? People are literally dumb...well I mean sometimes we need to make sure our air doesn’t end up like Beijing...
@@politicalmockery9400 Of course, I certainly don't support polluting our environment either though the idea that we should drag mankind back into the dark ages because of a half baked idea that the comparatively insignificant levels of CO2 we emit is ludicrous. I don't argue with the evidence that the climate is changing, I'm only saying that there is no evidence that this change is the result of human interaction with the environment. I also hate littering... :D
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0.5B in NSW alone, 1B in the whole of Oz sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/03/a-statement-about-the-480-million-animals-killed-in-nsw-bushfire.html
I would just ask you animal lovers to consider the fact that we brutally exploit and kill 3 billion animals every day for food, not to mention clothing etc., and how you even support the abuse with your purchases, but then on the other hand feel so bad about these animals. Consider spreading your kindness to those animals as well and stop purchasing animal products.
@@ttydt What difference does that make to the individual? My point is people are sad because animals are needlessly suffering, yet they pay to make animals suffer arguably in worse ways. Both are forms of needless suffering, that is what I think matters.
Its mainly 2 states with fires not half of the country, stupid climate change activists are trying to claim even the deserts in the centre of our country are ore on fire 😅. But it’s actually not funny that they are lying about our tragic situation to push there agenda, it’s extremely offensive.
@Fabian cutting firefighters budget is one thing, lane management is another. If state governments weren't lazy in keeping up with land management of fuel, the impact of the fires would be smaller than what it is right now.
In the worst affected state (NSW), the area burnt is about 10 million hectares. the whole state is around 800 million hectares. In other words about 6.5% of the area of the state. Much of that is in largely inaccessible mountainous areas.
@JannieofOZ Yeah, statistics are meaningless unless there is some point of comparison. Another good example is the number of animals killed, usually quoted as half a billion. If you google 'feral cats in Australia' that's about the same number of animals feral cats kill every few months continuously in Oz.
Chris Blunt you are a climate change denier but if the fire brigades & sciencist say it is, I rather beleive the experts then some idot with his head buried in the sand.
....wait. does Brazil sympathize? Didn't you all elect a man who has given free range to ranchers and big Ag to cut large swaths of the Amazon for profit...? Isn't this the same regime protecting those big businesses as they set fire to the Amazon and kill the indigenous people's actually fighting for our collective future?
E B, you're taking it the wrong way. In the US, this video generates more sympathy for Australia. Also, the US has sent fire fighters and fire fighting experts to Australia to help. More are on there way, as of 3 days ago. Quote from US's ABC News (abcnews . go . com): "BOISE, Idaho -- U.S. officials said Tuesday they're planning to send at least another 100 firefighters to Australia to join 159 already in the country battling wildfires that have killed 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes."
@Lord Farquaad Wait Tasmania's real, I thought that was just a made up place to scare Victorian children. Kids behave yourself or I'll send you to Tasmania.
Whats funny is the Amazon was on fire for 2 days and was a global story with millions on donations, the Australian fires started in September but only started to get global news 3-4 months latter
@@oliverbourke5497 Fire season here is Oz is about to start again too. Because of COVID we haven't been able to do any pre-season preparation or burns.
@@oliverbourke5497 by the time people started noticing about 20-25 milion acres was burned, that put it at 3rd largest and most devastating bushfire in history 3-4 months later it was now the most devastating bushfire in histoy by a long shot, just because we get them often doesn't mean it isn't news worthy, the California fires are in Aus news again and they are really really small
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@Andrew Potter The greens have absolutely no control in any local council in the entirety of Australia excluding the electorate of Melbourne. And as I remember there was a bushfire just outside of Darwin in September.
@Andrew Potter The Greens had nothing to do with the reduction of hazard reduction burns. Cuts from the state government to national parks are RESPONSIBLE. I am a RFS volunteer, I know how this all went down. I got to see it months in advance and we were all powerless to do anything. Stop spreading fake news.
Stringy-bark creek have you never been to Northern Territory? Just because the territory isn’t covered in trees and larger shrubs doesn’t mean that you can’t get uncontrollable shrub fires. Australian deserts are filled with smaller shrubs
A lot of California's problem is that they planted huge areas with Australian eucalypts in the 1800's gold rush years. Which are extremely inflammable, the literally explode in bushfires.
I recently cut down and removed a rather large (the trunk was 3' in diameter, 70' tall) eucalyptus tree from my yard, it was the last of seven eucalyptus that had been planted by previous owners. They are extremely flammable and notorious as man-killers for self-pruning branches without warning and crushing people. Add a shallow root system and they blow over easily crushing cars and houses. No thank you.
She completely missed the Cyclone making landfall over Northern Western Australia and the tropical low threatening to turn into a cyclone heading straight for Darwin on her satellite map
@@penguinlim Yes it brought rain ....... though only to the least fire impacted areas of the country. But cyclones also bring wide-ranging winds & lightning strikes ....... not the kind of things you want during fires.
@@HonestJunkie Blake put out some fires in the Kimberly, it's not all bad. And it' was pretty mild. And most of the fires were lit by dry lightning. Wet lightning is relatively harmless.
MikeYT you're right. Bushfires are part of our life. But not like this. Never like this. This is the effect of Climate Change. There are 3 unusual climate systems hitting Australia all at the same time. It's the reason we haven't had rain and our temperatures are the hottest in recorded history. In the last 3 days authorities and research centres have found a concerted effort by bots spreading that it's arsonists, not climate change. They just keep repeating it's not climate change. Our fire chiefs and police have said that 24 arsonists were arrested in the past year but none in relation to these fires. It's really climate change.
The climate is really different here in Europe as well. There's no snow in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (only in the mountains). Cities like Cologne in Germany are presenting the same mild temperature as cities in Spain, such as Barcelona for instance. Generally, the temperature here in Munich during winter time is around -7 degrees Celsius. But yesterday it was 15 degrees Celsius in the middle of winter! This is really crazy! In Moscow, which is one of the coldest capitals here in Europe, is presenting temperatures of +5 degrees C. In addition, the government there had to put artificial snow on the streets so people could take a picture in the "snow". Even there are already blooming some flowers. Here in Munich the temperature are rising and falling crazy, but the old good snow isn't falling (only twice in December 19)!
America had the least amount of firefighters out of any country that came to help us in Australia plus the were exhausted after a month but the nsw rural fire service just kept going as one US firefighter said in his 27 year career he has never seen anything like the fires across Australia before
We saw and smelt it holidaying in NZ 1200 miles away. Remember people died. That smoke was more than just trees and plants. RIP OZ Native Wildlife and People. Many pics by people with better phones than mine showed Auckland turning deep orange at 3 pm. Not sunsets. Headlights were needed to drive. Sunset is usually 5 hrs later this time of year.
I love how Adelaide isn't even on the map, we had some devastating fires in the Adelaide Hills that caused evacuation and loss of homes and life too. I had to evacuate my mum and my Daughter out of our home in the Adelaide Hills to my Auntie's apartment in Glenelg West of Adelaide CBD, many of our vineyards, generations worth were also destroyed. Kangaroo Island was completely wiped out, people trying to help the wildlife and fighting the fires loosing their lives also. I know our fires in South Australia we're bearly comparable to the fires that Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland endured but I mean Adelaide/South Australia does exist and were suffered too! Let's put it on the map!
I was wondering if anyone would point that out because it was the first thing I noticed too! There's no denying the sheer devastation caused and the unimaginable scenes the people in NSW and VIC faced, but the fires on K I unfortunately play a significant part in this tragedy.
i wouldnt say who got it worse, Size of the fire fronts was definately bigger. But we were all hit very bad by these fires of recent years. And while some area's have completely recovered, townships and residents have not returned in some area's even now.
As a Aussie, I just want to thank the American firefighters who came out to help you will be remembered and honoured, Thank you for helping save our country.
As a Aussie I just would like to apologise to the country for this comment from a fake Aussie thanking Americans like as if we like them I would like to thank the Canadians and there help
Thank you for showing this comparison. I'm an Aussie, and for you to present this, truly does make what happens here, frighteningly real indeed. Mind you, any fire is frightening, but when you're living in the suburbs of a major city, being told there's the possibility of fires reaching even our homes where we felt well and truly safe, it gave us a sense of deep uncertainty. The devastation of those 2019 fires was astonishing.
How our country isn’t just burning in one state have u seen WA or even SA Sydney is bad but look at Queensland or Melbourne it’s spread to nz aswell u think we’re the same as California grow up
The Sage Who cares who’s fire is bigger all we care about is putting them out. Also are you an Aussie like me or and American because I don’t know who’s your talking about?
That map of the fires is entirely misleading. It's based off a satellite heat map. I live in Aus and this is just false reporting. Large parts of NSW and VIC have been devastated, also SA has had some tough times, some southern regions in Qld. There are small fires around in other parts of the country but this map makes it look like the entire of North Queensland is on fire which is false. there were small fires that were contained quite easily.each icon represents a heat source but gives no indication on the size of it.
I live North coast NSW, green mountains in all directions, rain last few days, no fires here for 2 months. Reporter said 12 million acres, probably will be up to 15 million hectares. A cruel necessity of Australian nature. It would be much less if wasn't for complacency and stupidity.
@ PlasKoal56 ...Dude there are no fires up here in the north, go and check the fire alert websites, the media is beating this up and now tourists are cancelling their holidays to Australia.
Coming from Australia, when anyone says "our fire is bigger than your fire" it just confuses me. First off, why do you want to win this competition? And secondly, nah mate our entire country is burning.
There are two magical words here. "Land management"! How on earth though do you contain land management within a country as big as oz. I believe that's asking the near impossible.
terry taylor...perhaps national leadership, not with the current clowns though. But yeah it’s a hard job especially with the window of opportunity to proper backburning decreasing lately
1:11 ... is this map for real ? Australia is as big as the US ! This would mean the country is on fire from LA to NY and Seattle to Miami. Fire is natural, ask the indiginous people, but this is grand scale arson IMHO. And at 3:00 I'm not convinced she understands the Southern hemisphere having summer right now, while the US is having winter.
RAWDernison1 yes the map size is real. The fires are burning where there are trees, no trees are inland, no people live there. We have had years of drought, minimal rainfall. The places that do get rain get a flood all at once and it washes dust earth away rather than soaking in. Or, as happens recently, dry thunderstorms, heat lightening cause more fires. This fire may be from natural causes but is not natural/normal.
yeah the map is correct size. Australia's width is almost the same as the US as well. if you don't include Alaska, Australia's land area is almost exactly the same as the US. for the Europeans: if you put Australia on top of Europe, the land will cover up Britain, half of the Mediterranean, all of Spain, most of Turkey, half of Norway, Sweden and Finland and large chunk of Russia. and all the counties in between including both France and Germany.
The maps is real, but a composite over time. But most of the east cost is/has been burning. the fires started in August. The first areas are showing regrowth. Australia isn't as large as USA, but it's not too far behind. And it's closer to the equator.
The fact they keep spraying chemicals into our atmosphere doesn't help. Brisbane here ...even this morning so called geo engineering activity was evident
I would add lightening strikes to the list of causes. Dry thunderstorms occasionally initiate fires and lightening produced in the intense plumes of smoke are known to cause spot-fires ahead of the front.
@@ethanjvbalga Five? I know we had three around Baldivis in three days (a southern suburb of Perth). One of those started when the wheel came of a boat trailer. The driver was pretty embarrassed. However, those haven't been particularly exceptional.
We have a few months to go before that happens, I live on Canberra/NSW border with most of our family in Victoria. We haven’t been able to let the 5 kids under 8 yrs outside to play for weeks because of the smoke. We are 30 kms away from the closest fire and constantly on alert. We are getting very fed up hearing the rest the rest of the world using this as a political advantage or to push climate change bs
Dorothy Joy Cassilles which fires? I’m on Canberra/NSW border and have been anywhere from 5kms from grass fires to mostly 50 to 90 kms from major fires for weeks on end. Apparently we will not be getting any significant rain until March.
In Australia some plants need the fire 🔥 for their seeds to open. That’s why it’s important to do control burning like the Aboriginals use to do it for thousands of years. But the Greenies on the East Coast of Australia put stop to that, that’s why the bushfires were so very bad in recent years & many animals suffered also people lost their homes & lives. 😪 The West Coast they do controlled burning in late Autumn & in the Springtime to clear the under growth.
STOP using weather machines unless u make rain... STOP with the GEOENGINEERING and EMF... Let Australia get their water back..STOP FRACKIN Enough of this now...
Why don’t they talk more about the insane arson problem? Dozens of people (teens) arrested, and it’s not a new problem. There are several stories about Australian arsonists from a month ago, a year ago, and beyond.
We only have 8 cities, and you couldnt even get that right, did she just say " fires happen in when its hot in summer in both places and its a different time" wow, thanks for the heads up, did you know when it rains you get wet
its humid the in the upper parts of Australia...in Queensland...but youre right...last couple of summers have been very dry. Usually theres a storm at the end of a hot day here in Sydney but they are rare these days
@@Skybar23 I am in western Sydney and was saying that to a mate the other day.."Remember when we usually had a thunderstorm after most hot days that would cool everything down.Now to even get a few drops is a big deal."I hope we get some good rain soon,otherwise there will be nothing left.It's some crazy times that we live in.
The world is not ending. It's just the weather pattern. When it turns we will be cold and wet and then you will all think the world is ending again. And we have to re create the arc
George Carlin: dont you just love it? You hope everytime it gets worse and worse😂..i dont want them to put out my fire...thats my fire, its nature showing off😊
My town was effected by the bushfires of 2019. It was so scary. Thankfully we didn't loose any lives but so much land was lost. I was on edge for a week. And if something so little as the wind changing could kill hundreds of animals and people. One ember blowing in the womd can destroy a home. And even now in 2021, everytime i see a helicopter flying around, i smell smoke i panic that it's going to happen again.
While arson certainly has been a cause for some fires, the majority have been started by lightning strikes from dry thunderstorms. In the case of the Cudlee Creek fire recently, it was caused by high winds breaking very dry tree branches that fell onto powerlines. Still, not a good scenario no matter which way you look at it.
Tell President Macron not to give money but to have a frank and candid conversation about how to really be a leader - because Australia doesn't have good leadership and hasn't for many years. This is a major cause of the current bushfire crisis. I respect the French for their protest culture.
24 charged with intentionally setting Australia bushfires
www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/australia-bushfires-24-charged/507-774822af-2866-4b8b-aaa7-917a61eb8368?fbclid=IwAR3-JqmSs6c3ffYCAg2UtzBVem6T2OrnRFTSH922IfhfX5rcNRfVW5elCEE
Muh (manmade) climate change
Take climate change off your list. It has zero to do with it. Land management is the only cause of this
Marvin Martian...not true, there are a range of factors involved not least of which is climate change. The periods between seasons where they can do back burning is decreasing each year. This means it is becoming really hard to do effective back burning to reduce dry fuels. This is cause by the climate changing. And what we know is that 2019 was the dryest year on record in Australia. Also over the last 100 years if you look at graphs of the average temperatures there has been a steady rise in temperature at this time of year (starting from 1902- now)and lately the fire seasons have been longer (starting early and finishing later). From an Australian...please do your homework before commenting, peace ✌️
RikJ Stop it. I have relatives that are in some of these areas. They were stoped while back burning two years ago. Given a huge fine and told never to do it again. They have owned the property for three generations. Never been a fire there until now. Climate has zero to do with it.
I’ve read articles that say the exact opposite to what you are. So who should I pick between your post or those I know and trust? So please do your homework? Lol.
RikJ Btw back burning can happen any time of year. Winter is best is winter now shorter?
California: I have the worst fires
Australia: Hold my beer.
If Californians think that they are so dumb lol
@@ShinyXK exactly I was in the city when this was happening and everywhere u look there’s smoke and a fire
@@vory1770 far south coast NSW, there's no bush left, it ain't growing back. Fires were that ferocious turned the trees to carbon. Wildlifes gone too.
@@johnshanks5593 yeh
Hold my VB
Thank you very much to the American and Canadian fire fighters who helped us here in Australia. Especially to the the people who lost their life’s in the fire bomber plane crash .RIP
Yes that needs to be highlighted, they lost their lives helping us. God bless them.
We don’t need Americans and this is the most dumbest vid ever a country doesn’t compare to a state California isn’t the same as we r burning now
As a Aussie I just want to thank the Canadians for help that’s all we asked for bye
Thanks for sending this beautiful message
in Australia even when it Is winter we still get fires. I remember a massive fire during winter this year right near my house and it spread like crazy
SurviverH2 u know what I mean
May 2018 there were fires around Albany and heavy rains a little west, in May.
For the rest of you, winter officially starts on June 1.
@@oneeyedphotographer Winter is bascially not much different to May. After April the temperature dips pretty drastically in southern Australia
I think it’s the dry weather and the cold weather really anywhere you get fires in the winter.
True
Oh no! I thought for all these years I lived in Adelaide, South Australia, but your map has wiped us out of existence... Ha Ha!
Tasmania gone too
We've just been erased off the map 🙅
Remember Australia does not exist
Nah it does and I am an aussie
man im a Perth boy and I'm amazed we ended up on the map myself
@@adamblyth9972 Nah Adam, Western Australia is the biggest state in Australia, and the most beautiful. I have visited WA a number of times and I am amazed at the diversity and beauty of your state.
Hello! I'm an Aussie from the future, the fires have ended.
Edit: thanks for the likes
They always do, then the floods start.
@tanon I'm from your future, anthropocentric climate change was just a globalist lie.
Japete
Yeah because if we stop the carbon then what happens to the plants? People are literally dumb...well I mean sometimes we need to make sure our air doesn’t end up like Beijing...
@@politicalmockery9400 Of course, I certainly don't support polluting our environment either though the idea that we should drag mankind back into the dark ages because of a half baked idea that the comparatively insignificant levels of CO2 we emit is ludicrous. I don't argue with the evidence that the climate is changing, I'm only saying that there is no evidence that this change is the result of human interaction with the environment. I also hate littering... :D
Because we all expected Australia to turn into an eternal fiery hellscape...
Thank-you for bringing awareness to our battle here in Australia.
To the world outside Australia, we continue to be appreciative of your empathy and blessings, and to all those who have sent and contributed their aid in whatever way possible.
We love and thank you.
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All the aid that was stolen by the New South Wales country Fire brigade and not sent to all the Australians as it was meant to be
This is insane half a billion animals have already died in Australia and more to come it’s terrible
0.5B in NSW alone, 1B in the whole of Oz
sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/03/a-statement-about-the-480-million-animals-killed-in-nsw-bushfire.html
I would just ask you animal lovers to consider the fact that we brutally exploit and kill 3 billion animals every day for food, not to mention clothing etc., and how you even support the abuse with your purchases, but then on the other hand feel so bad about these animals. Consider spreading your kindness to those animals as well and stop purchasing animal products.
Marko Brečić there’s a difference between sustainable farming and literally extinction?
@@ttydt What difference does that make to the individual? My point is people are sad because animals are needlessly suffering, yet they pay to make animals suffer arguably in worse ways. Both are forms of needless suffering, that is what I think matters.
Talan Maryott it would be nice if a tsunami came in clutch
Rip the koalas and kangaroos
Adrian Polasky and people
and camels killed with cold blood
Female Koals have two wombs . After droughts and fires they give birth to twins.
Rip the 17 people who died.
what about the bugs?? millions of bugs must have died
Amazon fire: we have big fire
Australia: well yes but actually no
@CAMERON WAS HERE yes
Verdade
Directed energy weaponry .
Amazon shop
Do you think this is funny?
It’s crazy that not really half but half of Australia is on fire
Its mainly 2 states with fires not half of the country, stupid climate change activists are trying to claim even the deserts in the centre of our country are ore on fire 😅. But it’s actually not funny that they are lying about our tragic situation to push there agenda, it’s extremely offensive.
@Fabian cutting firefighters budget is one thing, lane management is another. If state governments weren't lazy in keeping up with land management of fuel, the impact of the fires would be smaller than what it is right now.
In the worst affected state (NSW), the area burnt is about 10 million hectares. the whole state is around 800 million hectares. In other words about 6.5% of the area of the state. Much of that is in largely inaccessible mountainous areas.
@JannieofOZ Yeah, statistics are meaningless unless there is some point of comparison. Another good example is the number of animals killed, usually quoted as half a billion. If you google 'feral cats in Australia' that's about the same number of animals feral cats kill every few months continuously in Oz.
Chris Blunt you are a climate change denier but if the fire brigades & sciencist say it is, I rather beleive the experts then some idot with his head buried in the sand.
Brazil sympathizes with the fires and sends resources to Australia. More love and less judgment.
"more love and less judgment."
well, intelligent people should sk for the reasons and act accordingly. Praying does not help you
....wait. does Brazil sympathize? Didn't you all elect a man who has given free range to ranchers and big Ag to cut large swaths of the Amazon for profit...? Isn't this the same regime protecting those big businesses as they set fire to the Amazon and kill the indigenous people's actually fighting for our collective future?
E B, you're taking it the wrong way. In the US, this video generates more sympathy for Australia. Also, the US has sent fire fighters and fire fighting experts to Australia to help. More are on there way, as of 3 days ago.
Quote from US's ABC News (abcnews . go . com):
"BOISE, Idaho -- U.S. officials said Tuesday they're planning to send at least another 100 firefighters to Australia to join 159 already in the country battling wildfires that have killed 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes."
She forgot Tasmania.
Lord Farquaad I wish I lived there!
Poor tassie 😔
@Lord Farquaad
Wait Tasmania's real, I thought that was just a made up place to scare Victorian children.
Kids behave yourself or I'll send you to Tasmania.
And the forgot to show the Capital
@Sandra Jones I noticed that
Lol remember when people freaked out about the amazon
Whats funny is the Amazon was on fire for 2 days and was a global story with millions on donations, the Australian fires started in September but only started to get global news 3-4 months latter
@@TheMissiIe australia fires are worse and in australia fires happen alot and are worse thoese amazon fires was a one time thing
@@oliverbourke5497 Fire season here is Oz is about to start again too. Because of COVID we haven't been able to do any pre-season preparation or burns.
@@oliverbourke5497 by the time people started noticing about 20-25 milion acres was burned, that put it at 3rd largest and most devastating bushfire in history
3-4 months later it was now the most devastating bushfire in histoy by a long shot, just because we get them often doesn't mean it isn't news worthy, the California fires are in Aus news again and they are really really small
@@jadsmvs8651 it's wetter and cooler this year though
Did anyone notice Adelaide
was missing from the map?
burnt it off like a wart.
I saw that too but yanno, only Adelaide takes notice of Adelaide xD
I noticed it but at least it wasn't Perth for once😂
And canberra
Oi don't feel bad, Canberra is missed on national weather maps so
Thank you for clearly stating the problem and providing context and perspective by contrasting it with the California wild fires
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The location of the fires on that map doesn’t look very accurate- especially the ones in Northern and Western Australia
Theyre not to scale,a reported fire can be anything from backyard to a whole forrest still gets reported as a fire
@Andrew Potter The greens have absolutely no control in any local council in the entirety of Australia excluding the electorate of Melbourne. And as I remember there was a bushfire just outside of Darwin in September.
@Andrew Potter The Greens had nothing to do with the reduction of hazard reduction burns. Cuts from the state government to national parks are RESPONSIBLE. I am a RFS volunteer, I know how this all went down. I got to see it months in advance and we were all powerless to do anything. Stop spreading fake news.
This is fake news climate change is just a scam how do u get fires in the desert what's the sand gonna catch on fire
Stringy-bark creek have you never been to Northern Territory? Just because the territory isn’t covered in trees and larger shrubs doesn’t mean that you can’t get uncontrollable shrub fires. Australian deserts are filled with smaller shrubs
A lot of California's problem is that they planted huge areas with Australian eucalypts in the 1800's gold rush years. Which are extremely inflammable, the literally explode in bushfires.
Its "flammable" mate....California would have an irrelevant amount of eucalypts compared to Australia.
@@AUmarcus absolutely but it's definitely not helping when you get the odd grotto that exploded.
Especially when they've been spread with aluminium, chemtrail fire's
I recently cut down and removed a rather large (the trunk was 3' in diameter, 70' tall) eucalyptus tree from my yard, it was the last of seven eucalyptus that had been planted by previous owners. They are extremely flammable and notorious as man-killers for self-pruning branches without warning and crushing people. Add a shallow root system and they blow over easily crushing cars and houses.
No thank you.
@@AUmarcus lol, SES crew’s literally carry knapsacks with them when they cut down eucalyptus trees,
She completely missed the Cyclone making landfall over Northern Western Australia and the tropical low threatening to turn into a cyclone heading straight for Darwin on her satellite map
Cyclone is bad and destructive, but it'll bring rain. win-lose. why does Australia have to suffer???? :(
@@penguinlim Yes it brought rain ....... though only to the least fire impacted areas of the country. But cyclones also bring wide-ranging winds & lightning strikes ....... not the kind of things you want during fires.
@@HonestJunkie Blake put out some fires in the Kimberly, it's not all bad. And it' was pretty mild.
And most of the fires were lit by dry lightning. Wet lightning is relatively harmless.
@@oneeyedphotographer Good point
I feel very sad for the animals impacted by the fire. Horrible to watch!
Me too, but I also feel sad for the dead PEOPLE
but humans lit the fires. cause the mess
I’m sorry but Australia isn’t that green, especially in central aus where it’s almost always about 35°
MikeYT you're right. Bushfires are part of our life. But not like this. Never like this.
This is the effect of Climate Change. There are 3 unusual climate systems hitting Australia all at the same time. It's the reason we haven't had rain and our temperatures are the hottest in recorded history. In the last 3 days authorities and research centres have found a concerted effort by bots spreading that it's arsonists, not climate change. They just keep repeating it's not climate change. Our fire chiefs and police have said that 24 arsonists were arrested in the past year but none in relation to these fires. It's really climate change.
StephBer1 100% agree
The climate is really different here in Europe as well. There's no snow in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (only in the mountains). Cities like Cologne in Germany are presenting the same mild temperature as cities in Spain, such as Barcelona for instance.
Generally, the temperature here in Munich during winter time is around -7 degrees Celsius. But yesterday it was 15 degrees Celsius in the middle of winter! This is really crazy! In Moscow, which is one of the coldest capitals here in Europe, is presenting temperatures of +5 degrees C. In addition, the government there had to put artificial snow on the streets so people could take a picture in the "snow". Even there are already blooming some flowers. Here in Munich the temperature are rising and falling crazy, but the old good snow isn't falling (only twice in December 19)!
@@patrickrobertsouza317 And the Antarctic Peninsula just hit its warmest temperature ever, 20*C
@@zhukie Ever?
Since 4.5 billion years ago?
Doubt it.
America had the least amount of firefighters out of any country that came to help us in Australia plus the were exhausted after a month but the nsw rural fire service just kept going as one US firefighter said in his 27 year career he has never seen anything like the fires across Australia before
The smoke is really big.. I'm wondering if the smoke is going everywhere to the world 😥
Yep 2000 miles to NZ.
Where ever the wind takes it
We saw and smelt it holidaying in NZ 1200 miles away.
Remember people died. That smoke was more than just trees and plants.
RIP OZ Native Wildlife and People.
Many pics by people with better phones than mine showed Auckland turning deep orange at 3 pm. Not sunsets. Headlights were needed to drive. Sunset is usually 5 hrs later this time of year.
Is it possible that the smoke is hoing to germany?
The smoke has done a loop of the globe. :/
I love how Adelaide isn't even on the map, we had some devastating fires in the Adelaide Hills that caused evacuation and loss of homes and life too. I had to evacuate my mum and my Daughter out of our home in the Adelaide Hills to my Auntie's apartment in Glenelg West of Adelaide CBD, many of our vineyards, generations worth were also destroyed. Kangaroo Island was completely wiped out, people trying to help the wildlife and fighting the fires loosing their lives also. I know our fires in South Australia we're bearly comparable to the fires that Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland endured but I mean Adelaide/South Australia does exist and were suffered too! Let's put it on the map!
I was wondering if anyone would point that out because it was the first thing I noticed too! There's no denying the sheer devastation caused and the unimaginable scenes the people in NSW and VIC faced, but the fires on K I unfortunately play a significant part in this tragedy.
i wouldnt say who got it worse, Size of the fire fronts was definately bigger. But we were all hit very bad by these fires of recent years. And while some area's have completely recovered, townships and residents have not returned in some area's even now.
It's still good in Australia. Come down under and have a beer.
hahaha a lot of people won't get this
And you to can be in a photo shoot, as a water boy.
And go on holidays!
As a Aussie, I just want to thank the American firefighters who came out to help you will be remembered and honoured, Thank you for helping save our country.
As a Aussie I just would like to apologise to the country for this comment from a fake Aussie thanking Americans like as if we like them I would like to thank the Canadians and there help
Thank you for showing this comparison. I'm an Aussie, and for you to present this, truly does make what happens here, frighteningly real indeed. Mind you, any fire is frightening, but when you're living in the suburbs of a major city, being told there's the possibility of fires reaching even our homes where we felt well and truly safe, it gave us a sense of deep uncertainty. The devastation of those 2019 fires was astonishing.
How our country isn’t just burning in one state have u seen WA or even SA Sydney is bad but look at Queensland or Melbourne it’s spread to nz aswell u think we’re the same as California grow up
"MeLBoooRRNnn"
Well australia itself is 18 times bigger then California.
How can you even compare these?
because people like to compare things that make no sense to compare with
just because the area effected is bigger doesn't mean its not devastating...
Most Americans don’t think Australia is that big to begin with unless you show them
Because the California fires was the biggest for America and you guys always go on about it
To put it in perspective for people from that region
this is better coverage than we get here in australia
because coal-funded media does not want to talk about this so detail
This is why you need a VPN so you can see what is actually going on in the world.
"our bush fire is bigger than your bush fire"
nature declare war on humanity but this sheila having a barging rights which wildfire is bigger.
And her BUSH is bigger by far grrrrrrr.
The Sage
Who cares who’s fire is bigger all we care about is putting them out.
Also are you an Aussie like me or and American because I don’t know who’s your talking about?
@@kempytheking1914 they are mocking the bloody news report mate. Settle down and have a laugh ffs.
Lol those people are like their president and pfc ww3 comes from him too
1:26 melborn jesus
Her knees look like they have faces
It's great to see people who willing to go into the big fires and help everyone around the place
The way she pronounced Melbourne lol
That map of the fires is entirely misleading. It's based off a satellite heat map. I live in Aus and this is just false reporting. Large parts of NSW and VIC have been devastated, also SA has had some tough times, some southern regions in Qld. There are small fires around in other parts of the country but this map makes it look like the entire of North Queensland is on fire which is false. there were small fires that were contained quite easily.each icon represents a heat source but gives no indication on the size of it.
Our skies were red all week, sos
#Australia
Yoda certainly wasn’t like that in Sydney
@@kayseek1248 It was for us
the final number was 46 million acres btw
She forgot to mention the half a million acres of blue gum and red gum Eucalyptus in southern California.
A ticking time bomb for California.
You are absolutely correct. Gums native to Australia are the most volatile of trees in a wild fire. They actually explode.
Their map didn’t show tassie on fire.
Because tassie dosen't have fires
can't think of a name I stand corrected
can't think of a name yeah we can have bad fine some areas in tassie is dryer than the rest of Australia
Im surprised that they even had tassa on the map
LIES...there are no fires in Far North Queensland, I know, I live here.
Dude just because your home isn't affected dosent mean they aren't happening...
I live North coast NSW, green mountains in all directions, rain last few days, no fires here for 2 months.
Reporter said 12 million acres, probably will be up to 15 million hectares.
A cruel necessity of Australian nature.
It would be much less if wasn't for complacency and stupidity.
@ PlasKoal56 ...Dude there are no fires up here in the north, go and check the fire alert websites, the media is beating this up and now tourists are cancelling their holidays to Australia.
Coming from Australia, when anyone says "our fire is bigger than your fire" it just confuses me. First off, why do you want to win this competition? And secondly, nah mate our entire country is burning.
Sony I’m in the Northern Territory not affected by fires 🔥 but in between 2 forming cyclones at the moment. Jeez can’t win.
Adelaide:baby I’m not even here, I’m a hallucination
There are two magical words here. "Land management"! How on earth though do you contain land management within a country as big as oz. I believe that's asking the near impossible.
terry taylor...perhaps national leadership, not with the current clowns though. But yeah it’s a hard job especially with the window of opportunity to proper backburning decreasing lately
1:11 ... is this map for real ? Australia is as big as the US ! This would mean the country is on fire from LA to NY and Seattle to Miami. Fire is natural, ask the indiginous people, but this is grand scale arson IMHO. And at 3:00 I'm not convinced she understands the Southern hemisphere having summer right now, while the US is having winter.
RAWDernison1 yes the map size is real. The fires are burning where there are trees, no trees are inland, no people live there. We have had years of drought, minimal rainfall. The places that do get rain get a flood all at once and it washes dust earth away rather than soaking in. Or, as happens recently, dry thunderstorms, heat lightening cause more fires. This fire may be from natural causes but is not natural/normal.
yeah the map is correct size. Australia's width is almost the same as the US as well. if you don't include Alaska, Australia's land area is almost exactly the same as the US.
for the Europeans: if you put Australia on top of Europe, the land will cover up Britain, half of the Mediterranean, all of Spain, most of Turkey, half of Norway, Sweden and Finland and large chunk of Russia. and all the counties in between including both France and Germany.
It was not all arson - there was also fires started by dry lightning.
Yes the map is real and Australia is a huge country ! If you visit here you would understand what I mean.
The maps is real, but a composite over time. But most of the east cost is/has been burning. the fires started in August. The first areas are showing regrowth.
Australia isn't as large as USA, but it's not too far behind. And it's closer to the equator.
You forgot that our trees explode when they get lit on fire
I check the Vic Emergency App everyday to check for bushfires
Man, my friend said austraillia was on fire and i didn't believe him up untill now
TTV_Starzone_232 it’s true. And we are all choking in the smoke
"",Planet Earth is your home Australia is a big part of it Australia needs help help Australia""
Raul Hernandez gracias mate
Raul Hernandez yess
Gotta love the desert burning, ya know?
Everybody: *loses sight of spider in house, burns house down*
Month Nature: *sets entire continent a blaze*
yeah yeah i get it, it’s sad, obviously
So funny watching this, not used to seeing an American talking about my country like this. I hoped the world can learn from our tragedy.
Janelle Macpherson It isn't funny because America has had identical fires through the same causes. Stop using a tragedy to get likes
This presenter sorta had a tune like it’s a competition for wildfires.
I’m in Australia. Lots of hyperbole in this report.
Repent and believe in jesus he is coming
The rich people did this to your country
Ruby Maria yess amen, he will come soon and save us
Ruby Maria please don’t
Andrew Clarke Lot’s of misleading lies too!
As an Australian, I hate how she is saying "Australia" its pronounced 'auh stray liah" not "oz ztray lia'
The fact they keep spraying chemicals into our atmosphere doesn't help.
Brisbane here ...even this morning so called geo engineering activity was evident
I’m an Adeladian and some say that kangaroo island could be completely gone 😢
Aunty Wheezer yes, that’s how it works...with any and all smoke.
I would add lightening strikes to the list of causes. Dry thunderstorms occasionally initiate fires and lightening produced in the intense plumes of smoke are known to cause spot-fires ahead of the front.
2:18 felt like this at the time. Media stories at the time were captivating
I thought fire for Aussies was just sun tan.
Jokes aside, this is a real issue that we as people should come together and offer our aid.
Nice save
Australia is not that hot
Love the Americans for their support last year hope you get rain soon in California.
Thanks for helping us America and USA.
14 Million + Acers Burnt / 5.8 Million + hectares :(
Oh my god, I live in Perth Australia 🥺(there are no fires in the city)
There were 5 in perth yesterday. Spoke too soon
Ethan Hampton not near me :P
@@ethanjvbalga Five? I know we had three around Baldivis in three days (a southern suburb of Perth). One of those started when the wheel came of a boat trailer. The driver was pretty embarrassed.
However, those haven't been particularly exceptional.
Really? There ALWAYS one where I am in Perth
Living here in brisbane australia and I havent seen any fires, illuminate confirmed.
It confirms one thing: You’re a complete & utter fwit.
You only had to drive about an hour away. Where did you think all the smoke was coming from>
I don't know why but I feel like I'm responsible for this.
Omae Wa Shua we all are
You're not to blame unless you are an arsonists.
@Jamie I meant how humans are somehow responsible for climate change if it's not arson
Reporter: by comparison that Australia bush cites would stretch all the way from San Diego to vancouver...
California: hold my beer
Stuffz California fires of now are still very minuscule compared to Australian fires of 2019-2020
nah mate Cali fires pale in comparison when Aus fires reached nz, hawaii and south america
some australians be like whats rain?
World should support austrailia
We support americans when there are cali bushfires
Really hope the bush fire goes out as soon as possible in Australia.
We have a few months to go before that happens, I live
on Canberra/NSW border with most of our family in Victoria. We haven’t been able to let the 5 kids under 8 yrs outside to play for weeks because of the smoke. We are 30 kms away from the closest fire and constantly on alert. We are getting very fed up hearing the rest the rest of the world using this as a political advantage or to push climate change bs
Im 9 kilometres from the fires, its been burning for months now. We need rain, 6 inches or more
Dorothy Joy Cassilles which fires? I’m on Canberra/NSW border and have been anywhere from 5kms from grass fires to mostly 50 to 90 kms from major fires for weeks on end. Apparently we will not be getting any significant rain until March.
In Australia some plants need the fire 🔥 for their seeds to open. That’s why it’s important to do control burning like the Aboriginals use to do it for thousands of years. But the Greenies on the East Coast of Australia put stop to that, that’s why the bushfires were so very bad in recent years & many animals suffered also people lost their homes & lives. 😪
The West Coast they do controlled burning in late Autumn & in the Springtime to clear the under growth.
Mountain ash
months ago many Americans didn't even know where Australia was nor the size of it. perhaps they sadly do know,
Gps systems going down because of no power...
STOP using weather machines unless u make rain... STOP with the GEOENGINEERING and EMF... Let Australia get their water back..STOP FRACKIN Enough of this now...
Why don’t they talk more about the insane arson problem? Dozens of people (teens) arrested, and it’s not a new problem. There are several stories about Australian arsonists from a month ago, a year ago, and beyond.
We only have 8 cities, and you couldnt even get that right, did she just say " fires happen in when its hot in summer in both places and its a different time" wow, thanks for the heads up, did you know when it rains you get wet
@Jamie I've been to Whyalla many times, heard it called many things, but never a city :). (but technically it is)
1 bush = the biggest fire in the world
PREY FOR AUSTRALIA
*pray😂
Indoensia is raining haerd. Some flooded but its already gone already. I hope the rain goes to australia soon.
aitai sakura it’s raining in some parts down here, it will come some day soon. Thank you for your kind words
You couldve added Broome on the map, had plenty of room...
Yeah and Adelaide, but somehow Port Moresby was named.
The east coast should be humid and lots of thunderstorms this time of year. Not dry.
its humid the in the upper parts of Australia...in Queensland...but youre right...last couple of summers have been very dry. Usually theres a storm at the end of a hot day here in Sydney but they are rare these days
@@Skybar23 I am in western Sydney and was saying that to a mate the other day.."Remember when we usually had a thunderstorm after most hot days that would cool everything down.Now to even get a few drops is a big deal."I hope we get some good rain soon,otherwise there will be nothing left.It's some crazy times that we live in.
its called a drought & droughts are not unusual for australia
This fire has gone on for too long in Victoria. I'm requesting rain for this region. 𒂗𒆠 will hear me.
I wishing now that rain dance was real😭😭😭
@@mydreams8676 It's raining heavily where I am now. At least it will extinguish the fire in this region. 𒂗𒆠 listens.
Pray for Australian wildlife 🙏🙏
Not again. How about money for climate and influence of politicians? Praying achieves nothing and only makes you feel better.
Australia is a country where the indigenous people burnt the bush periodically and do back burning.
Californian fires probably smell the same as here in Australia,lots of Eucalypts planted there.
When nature TEACHES YOU ITS LESSON
What might that be?
Yep. We didn't take care of the land (such as controlled burning) and nature is teaching us a VERY big lesson.
I can't believe nature kamikazied
Mainly because of arson 200 people arrested not natural as much but global warming helps it.
No way all of these fires started naturally.
I live in Australia
I remember when it was Smokey
Now we have COVID
Size Matters. Point of view & interpretation matters, too. American from the future.
The world is ending ; we're just not there.
lol losers
The world is not ending. It's just the weather pattern. When it turns we will be cold and wet and then you will all think the world is ending again. And we have to re create the arc
George Carlin: dont you just love it? You hope everytime it gets worse and worse😂..i dont want them to put out my fire...thats my fire, its nature showing off😊
ARSON
My town was effected by the bushfires of 2019. It was so scary. Thankfully we didn't loose any lives but so much land was lost. I was on edge for a week. And if something so little as the wind changing could kill hundreds of animals and people. One ember blowing in the womd can destroy a home. And even now in 2021, everytime i see a helicopter flying around, i smell smoke i panic that it's going to happen again.
While arson certainly has been a cause for some fires, the majority have been started by lightning strikes from dry thunderstorms. In the case of the Cudlee Creek fire recently, it was caused by high winds breaking very dry tree branches that fell onto powerlines. Still, not a good scenario no matter which way you look at it.
Surga Allah amin 🙏 love Australia 😭😭😭😢😢💞💞💞💞
Surga? Thats in malay
It called Heaven.
Or in Arabic it called Jannah
@@lasttimeitakeshowerwas8618 but i think its called syurga
allah FFS
Oops, you left off two state capital cities from you map of Australia, Adelaide and Hobart.
They forgot Adelaide
I am French and a friend of mine works in Austrialia. I hope thatr President Macron is going to give help to your wondeful country.
I hope Macron helps your own country. Thanks for the well wishes.
Cheers mate means a lot
Macron is not capable to do anything.
I love France ....hopefully next time there is a meeting in Paris for climate talks the Australian Government will turn up!
Tell President Macron not to give money but to have a frank and candid conversation about how to really be a leader - because Australia doesn't have good leadership and hasn't for many years. This is a major cause of the current bushfire crisis. I respect the French for their protest culture.
One morning the smoke was so think in the Blue Mountains NSW (Oz), maybe see 6 feet in frount. SCARY!
That bad
Get well australia
There ain’t fires in the middle of the desert and Australia isn’t that green, for a news channel you guys really need to learn your geography