Fires Continue Raging in Southeast
From Times Wire Reports
Faced with walls of flames, firefighters gave up trying to put out the rampaging forest fires around Sydney’s southern suburbs and instead focused on saving lives and property. The toll--two firefighters dead, 38 homes destroyed and half a million acres scorched--raised fears that the blazes could be even more destructive than those that killed four people and razed more than 200 homes around the southeastern seaport in January 1994.
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