Live bushfire updates: 'Enormous amount of fire' still burning
Teen activist Greta Thunberg has reacted to our bushfire crisis, telling Australians there is something we simply "have to change".
Fire crews in New South Wales today continued to battle “an enormous amount of fire” while their counterparts in South Australia assessed the aftermath of yesterday’s Adelaide Hills disaster.
Conditions have eased but the situation remains precarious. Here’s where things currently stand:
- Authorities in SA say at least 72 homes were destroyed in the Cudlee Creek fires that devastated the Adelaide Hills.
- A man who died in those blazes has been identified as Ron Selth, 69, whose home was razed last night.
- Balmoral in the NSW Southern Highlands region has been decimated, with a blaze yesterday leaving behind “not much” of the 400 homes.
- An elderly Lithgow man who was unaccounted for was found safe and sound today.
- A second man, aged in his 60s or 70s, is missing from the rural village of Bell, near Lithgow, which was engulfed yesterday.
- Weather conditions have eased, giving exhausted fireys in NSW a chance to catch up.
- Scott Morrison toured the NSW Rural Fire Service headquarters and later travelled to evacuation centres after apologising again for his Hawaiian holiday.
Read on for all the latest news.
