Finally, Australia Has Now Some Good News!

Authorities in Australia have finally now some good news to share with the world regarding the months-long bushfires.

This morning, authorities in Sydney announced that they expect the crisis of unprecedented bushfires in the country to end in the coming days due to the heavy rains that are speculated to put out dozens of fires in the south of the country.

Several consecutive days of rain led to sudden flooding in the states of New South Wales in the south and Queensland, especially in areas devoured by fire in the past weeks.

In particular, Sydney has witnessed the highest rainfall in 30 years in the past few days. The rains contributed to putting out many fires, one of which was 500,000 hectares in the north of the city.

Australia is witnessing annual fires by the end of winter, but this year the scale was very large and caused a national disaster that killed 33 people since September and caused the death of one billion animals.

The fires came over an area of ​​more than one hundred thousand square kilometers, which is larger than the area of ​​Portugal, while more than two thousand homes were destroyed.

Earlier in January, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, whose government has been criticized for its slow response to the emergency, pledged 1.4 billion dollars in taxpayer money to create a national rescue fund.

“There is a long way to go and we will be by these communities every step of the way when they rebuild,” Morrison said.

In the largest mobilization of its kind for the reserve soldiers, military teams have been deployed to the areas of eastern Australia to assist the emergency services to survey the damage, restore electricity, and deliver food, water and fuel supplies to isolated communities.

For the first time in Australian history, the government has also deployed a medical aid team that it usually sends to other countries for post-disaster assistance, in order to relief evacuees.

NASA images have shown smoke billowing from Australia’s east coast drifting over New Zealand and even reaching South America in less than a week.