Australia bushfires: eyewitness account of the ocean evacuation as Mallacoota burns

Emergency services officials in Victoria use the 176-metre-long HMAS Choules to evacuate residents who have been left stranded at the coastal town of Mallacoota after a large blaze forced 4,000 people to take shelter on the foreshore. On 3 January, a defence force official tells the townspeople: ‘Once you’e aboard and it’s safe they’ll do a final head count and it’s about a 10-15 minute transit over there. Once you’re in location, you’ll be provided with some food, some water and accommodation.’

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33 COMMENTS

  1. I was taken on that ship. Having been in surgery I was on heart bypass when they had to close my chest and get me wrapped in a fire blanket and out of the building I ended up in a mans Ute being taken to the beach to be brought to a safe hospital.

  2. The bushfires were creating their own weather systems from the smoke, this cause lightning with no rain, this causes more fires, and then it repeats, thus happened once in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, but it happened over 10 times in 2019 alone

  3. This was 8 months ago. Today we're seeing large evacuations to do wildfires in Oregon. And it will keep happening again and again for the foreseeable future. There's only one future in which we will survive, and we're not going in that direction.

  4. Parece um cenário de fim de mundo.
    Foi lindo ver as pessoas levando seus animais de estimação, inclusive tinha um homem com um lindo coelho nos braços 💓
    Muito triste o que está acontecendo na Austrália 😔

  5. I live in australia and I am so sad to see what's happening to Victoria,New south Wales and kangaroo island. I feel so upset to see that people think it's ok to start a f*****g bushfire. I'm thankful that other countries and celebs who are helping out.

  6. I'm so sad about what's going on in Australia. It will take years to restore what nature has lost in a few months … and probably the same weather conditions will occur next year. However, I hope the captured arsonists remain in prison. Distressing.

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