on Wednesday morning, Danish time is a brandslukningshelikopter crash in Brisbane, Australia, as it was in the process of switching off the extensive wildfires currently raging in the country.
It writes the SBS News.
According to the ambulance service the Queensland Ambulance pilot had to make a hard landing and is now being treated for non-life-threatening injuries’.
#Pechey – paramedics are treating one patient for minor injuries after a helicopter landed heavily to 1.52 pm.
— Queensland Ambulance (@QldAmbulance) 13. november 2019
The australian authorities have ordered the population to evacuate. The firemen are struggling early on Wednesday morning, Danish time, with more than 150 fires on the east coast, and already more than 1.1 million acres either burned or on fire, according to news agency Reuters.
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Australian Brian Acheson, who lives in the small town of Tinonee, on the east coast, trying to fight the fire. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
hundreds of homes are destroyed as a result of the fires.
– It has just gobbled everything up. I have survived two other wildfires before, but never anything like it here, tells the australian Karen Weston on a evakueringscenter according to Reuters.
High temperatures and strong winds can help to aggravate the situation, and according to Reuters, it is expected to flare up again in the next week. Thus, there is no prospect that the fires can standes right now.
