BBCNEWS BBC News July 13, 2024
With more than a hundred bushfires burning, record breaking temperatures and extreme winds, New South Wales, australias most heavily populated state, has declared a 7 day state of emergency. Two volunteer firefighters have been killed in a road crash near sydney. Temperatures as high as 47 celsius are expected at the weekend. And Prime Minister Scott Morrison is taking some criticism for being on holiday as the crisis unfolds. Hes now released a statement saying, i express my sincere condolences and sympathies to the families of the firefighters who have so tragically been killed overnight, an...