A fire on the australian east coast has been turned off after 210 days.
the Fire with the name of Lindfield Park Road Four in the coastal town of Port Macquaire north of Sydney has gutted the ago 18. July of last year.
about nine square kilometers of the great fire was extinguished, after record amounts of rain have fallen in the state of New South Wales (NSW), where the 260 millimetres of rain has fallen the past few days.
It informs the fire department in NSW on Twitter.
in Addition, the fire department pumped large quantities of water in the earth, since half of the fire was under the ground. It writes the australian media the Sydney Morning Herald.
Despite the large amounts of rain burns 25 fires still further, in the state, four of which are out of control.
the Authorities expect that the land is completely no-fire, before the week is over, when more rain is on the way.
Sydney and surrounding areas experienced last week, the largest amounts of rain over four days since 1990. About 400 millimeters of rain fell from Friday to Monday morning, which is more than the city got for the last six months.
For comparison, there fell 905 millimetres of rain in Denmark in the whole of 2019, which was a record year.
at Least the 80,000 homes have been without power as a result of the storms in NSW, and a train station in the town of Narribri, which is located about 520 kilometers northwest of Sydney, was completely flooded.
The devastating fires that have ravaged Australia in the past six years, has so far claimed the lives of 33 persons life.
It is estimated that about one billion of wild animals have perished in the flames since september.
About 2500 homes have been destroyed nationwide, and more than 117.000 square kilometers of land have been destroyed by the fires. This is equivalent to almost three times Denmark’s area.
