A heatwave sent temperatures soaring towards 40°C at the weekend, with bushfires raging across Victoria state forcing thousands of people to flee their homes
Smoke covers the sky from a bushfire in Berwick, Melbourne, Australia, on March 2 2019 in this drone timelapse still taken from social media. Picture: REUTERS/MICHAEL C MADDEN
A days-long heatwave sent temperatures soaring towards 40°C at the weekend, with bushfires raging across Victoria state forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Aerial footage of the destruction showed tall trees engulfed by bright red flames and the smouldering, blackened wreckage of buildings.A local winemaker spoke of his heartache as he watched his vineyard destroyed by a raging fire on television.
“We’ve lost everything. We’ve lost our livelihood. I planted that winery myself and put the first vines in back in 1979.”
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