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June 2019 – ongoing 💀

Fatalities

34 total 👤

Missing

0 firefighters

0 civilians 🔥

Burnt Area

18,631,070 + hectares 🧯

Extinguished



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Buildings Destroyed

8,000+ 🏠

Homes Lost



2,700+



Australia's area is 769,200,000 Hectares



Around 1.5% of Australia has been burnt so far.



1,000,000,000 wild animals are estimated to have died.

(Not including frogs and insects)



Australia is losing species faster than any other part of the world.





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Scams and Fraud

It was reported by multiple media outlets that the ACCC had received 86 reports of bushfire-related scams. It came as increased requests for cash driven donations leveraging crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe, or as a result of false links posted on Twitter. It has prompted some organisations to provide a list of approved and vetted charities online to reduce fraud.

WE SUPPORT

Reaching thousands effected by fires through charity, auctions and information.

International Recognition

Political figures from outside Australia including Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Piers Morgan, Bernie Sanders, Greta Thunberg and Elizabeth Warren have all publicly commented about the fires. Some of the aforementioned people have also donated or raised funds.



People in the entertainment industry such as Tina Arena, Patricia Arquette, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Ellen DeGeneres, Halsey, Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Margot Robbie, Paul Stanley and Phoebe Waller-Bridge have also made statements about the fires.



8 January 2020

Prince Charles issued a video message expressing his despair at the "appalling horror" of the fires. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex also issued messages to Australia.



4 January 2020

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh sent a message of condolence to Governor-General David Hurley, sending their "thoughts and prayers to all Australians at this difficult time". The Queen indicated in her message that she was "deeply saddened" to hear of the fires and their devastating impact on the country, and expressed her thanks to emergency service workers.

WWF-Australia

1st December 2019

Two Billion Trees - Plan to aid the koala bushfire recovery. It aims to stop excessive tree-clearing, protect the existing trees and forests, and restore native habitat that has been lost. The 10-point plan for the next 10 years foresees to grow 1.56 billion new trees and save 780 million trees.

International aid

Canada

Four deployments totalling 87 Canadian firefighters were sent through the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. It was the first time since 2009 that Canadian personnel were deployed to Australia.



France

6th January, French President Emmanuel Macron stated he could help out with the bushfires. A team of five French firefighting experts arrived in Australia on 9th January in order to determine possible options for French and European support.



Malaysia

Deployed over forty firefighters to assist with the bushfires. Twenty others from government agencies would also be involved with the mission.



New Zealand

Over fifty New Zealanders were deployed to Australia in both direct fire fighting and support roles. In January 2020, New Zealand also deployed elements of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and New Zealand Army including three NH90 helicopters, two Army combat engineer sections, and a command element.



Papua New Guinea

The Government of Papua New Guinea offered to send 1,000 military and other personnel to Australia to assist with the response to the bushfires. Australia accepted 100 Papua New Guinea Defence Force personnel.



Singapore

Singapore deployed two Chinook helicopters and 42 Singapore Armed Forces personnel stationed at Oakey Army Aviation Centre to RAAF Base East Sale in Victoria.



United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates also sent 200 volunteers from the Emirates Red Crescent to help fight the fire.



United States

Brian Stearns, a Huron-Manistee National Forests employee, on secondment to Australia, holds a kangaroo joey. Twenty firefighters from the United States Department of the Interior were deployed to Australia to help combat the fires. Fire fighters from other parts of the US also helped with the fires.



Other Countries

Several other countries have offered assistance:



7th January

Denmark offered 50 firefighters via the Danish Emergency Management Agency that were on a standby and could move on a short notice, but it was deemed unnecessary by the Australian Government, which at that point said that they had sufficient material, manpower and organisation to deal with the remaining fires.



6th January 2020,

Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs responded to the Civil Protection Mechanism (EUCPM) and prepared 70 firefighters to be deployed in Australia through the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) of the European Union.

This offer of help was rejected by Australia.



Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu tweeted that Turkey is ready to provide all required assistance, while Turkey's Melbourne consulate donated $14,500 to Queensland Fire and Emergency Services.



The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine notified Australia that the Ukrainian government is ready to send 200 seasoned firefighters to help fight the fires. Ukraine's Foreign Minister also noted that "The fires in Australia have not left the Ukrainians indifferent."



Some Pacific nations have also stated that they could send some aid.

Commonwealth Response 5 January 2020

The Prime Minister announced the establishment of the National Bushfire Recovery Agency, funded initially with A$2 billion, under the control of former Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Andrew Colvin.



4 January 2020

It announced that it would lease four waterbombing planes including two long-range DC-10s and two medium-range for use by state and territory governments.



29 December 2019

volunteer firefighters who have been called out for more than 10 days would be able to receive financial compensation.



24 December 2019

Volunteer firefighters employed in the Commonwealth public service would be offered at least 20 working days paid leave.

Military Response 4 January 2020

Following a meeting of the National Security Committee, the Morrison Government announced a compulsory call-out of Army Reserve brigades for the first time in the nation's history to deploy up to 3,000 reserve personnel full-time to assist with in the Operation. Additionally, Defence announced that it would deploy HMAS Adelaide to support other Navy ships in evacuations and relief, as well additional Chinook helicopters and military transport aircraft to RAAF Base East Sale.



Chinook helicopters evacuated civilians from Omeo and Spartan aircraft evacuated civilians from Mallacoota.



3 January 2020

HMAS Choules and MV Sycamore evacuated civilians from Mallacoota bound for Westernport.



1 January 2020

ADF deployed additional military staff establishing the Victorian Joint Task Force 646 (Army Reserve 4th Brigade) and the following day the New South Wales Joint Task Force 1110 (Army Reserve 5th Brigade).



31 December 2019

The Defence Minister announced the ADF would provide assistance to East Gippsland, in particular the isolated high fire risk town of Mallacoota, deploying helicopters including a CH-47 Chinook and C-27J Spartan military transport aircraft to be based at RAAF Base East Sale and two naval vessels, HMAS Choules and MV Sycamore, with the vessels also able to assist in south-east New South Wales if required.



5 December 2019

The Australian Defence Force commenced Operation Bushfire Assist to support state fire services in logistics, planning, capability, and operational support. Activities the ADF has undertaken as part of the Operation have included Air Force aircraft transporting firefighters and their equipment interstate, Army and Navy helicopters transporting firefighters, conducting night fire mapping, impact assessments and search and rescue flights, use of various defence facilities as coordination and information centres and for catering and accommodation for firefighters, liaison between state and federal government services, reloading and refueling for waterbombing aircraft, deployment of personnel to assess fire damage and severity and provision of humanitarian supplies.

What's Causing the Fires? Arson criminal act, deliberately setting fire to property.

Lightning strikes electric discharge between the atmosphere and an object. A less common type of strike, called ground to cloud (GC), is upward propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaches into the clouds.

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Dry lighting storms can form and create dry lightning, setting more land ablaze.

Record breaking heat 9 News

Australia Now Hottest Place on Earth.

Record breaking drought event of prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water. A drought can last for months or years, or may be declared after as few as 15 days.

Lack of hazard reduction any activity that reduces or removes fuel before the onset of a Bushfire, so as to minimize damage to life, property and the environment if a Bushfire does occur.



A permit to light a fire may be required for burning hazards, particularly during the Bush Fire Danger Period.

Positive (WARM) Indian Ocean Dipole also known as the Indian Niño, is an irregular oscillation of sea-surface temperatures in which the western Indian Ocean becomes alternately warmer (positive phase) and then colder (negative phase) than the eastern part of the ocean.



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7,920,000 km²

792,000,000 Hectares



Capital

Canberra



Population

26,000,000

Australia currently grows by 1 new person every 83 seconds.



Life expectancy

84.6 years



Currency

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GDP per capita

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