#australia is burning
It’s a very sad time in Australia right now. Bushfires are devastating the country. I wanted to draw something to get the word out and list some ways we can help.
Donations can be made to the following organisations:
- NSW Rural Fire Service
- VIC Country Fire Authority
- The Red Cross Australia
- The Salvation Army Australia
- WIRES Wildlife Rescue
- WWF Australia
- Port Macquarie Koala Hospital
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It’s snowing in Australia but it isn’t frozen water it’s snowing- It’s ash from the 401 fires burning our country down.
Our Prime Ministers initial response to climate change? “I send my thoughts and prayers” and then he buggered off for a holiday in Hawaii. Two volunteer firefighters are among the many ash o have DIED from these fires now. A whole species (the koala) has been labelled as functionally extinct because of them, people are bow homeless, towns and states are B U R N I N G.
The closest fire to Melbourne City, Victoria, where I live, is covered in more and more smoke every hour, even though the closest fire is over AN HOUR out of the city.
We are literally burning.
Sorry for the unrelated post but this is how we are doing right now, this is what Australia is going through.
It’s snowing in Australia but it isn’t frozen water it’s snowing- It’s ash from the 401 fires burning our country down.
Our Prime Ministers initial response to climate change? “I send my thoughts and prayers” and then he buggered off for a holiday in Hawaii. Two volunteer firefighters are among the many ash o have DIED from these fires now. A whole species (the koala) has been labelled as functionally extinct because of them, people are bow homeless, towns and states are B U R N I N G.
The closest fire to Melbourne City, Victoria, where I live, is covered in more and more smoke every hour, even though the closest fire is over AN HOUR out of the city.
We are literally burning.
Sorry for the unrelated post but this is how we are doing right now, this is what Australia is going through.
Update: there are now currently 410 fires.
2:32pm update, there are now 475 fires/incidents related to fires in Australia. It’s 42C/107F rn and that’s not even as hot as it’s supposed to get today, it will be a top of 44c/111F today. In some parts of Australia it is 53C/127.4F.
Please stay safe Australia
3:40pm update: There are now 523 fires/incidents across Australia. There’s no blue in the sky, there was an out of control house fire 5 min from me at 3 and now a bush fire 15 min from me.
The area around my work was filled with smoke from about 1pm, and travelling to my second job it’s only getting thicker
My bus overheated 20 minutes in and we had to turn the bus off completely by the side of the highway with the doors open in 42C heat to let it cool off
6pm update ft. My girlfriends updates;
There are 657 incidents, it was at 661 barely 20 min ago. We’re watching to see if it hits 666 bc this is some apocalyptic BULLSHIT.
At least 20 of those incidents are trees collapsing in the heat, about 100 are car accidents, most of the rest? Fires. Some fires in countrysides aren’t even being fought because we don’t have the force nor the funding for it. The firefighters are probably mostly volunteers ar the moment but don’t even have enough equipment.
Australia is in trouble.
7pm update: Apparently I missed 666, this is past apocalyptic bs levels. We’re going to die.
