{"id":776838,"date":"2020-01-05T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T12:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/05\/forest-fires-in-australia-kills-25-people-and-over-500-million-animals\/"},"modified":"2020-01-05T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T12:27:40","slug":"forest-fires-in-australia-kills-25-people-and-over-500-million-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/05\/forest-fires-in-australia-kills-25-people-and-over-500-million-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest fires in Australia kills 25 people and over 500 million animals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p>Australia is facing it biggest ever national crisis and doesn\u2019t seem to quench anytime soon. Wild bushfires ravaging rural communities across the nation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200105_105807.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112044\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>Australia is not new to bushfires but this year\u2019s bushfire season has been described as \u201cunprecedented\u201d in their ferocity and scale.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated\u00a0number of 6.3\u00a0million hectares (16\u00a0million acres; 63,000 square kilometres; 24,000 square miles), destroyed over 2,500 buildings (including over 1,300 houses) and killed 25 people as of 5 January 2020, with a further six missing in the state of Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started in September 2019 but has escalated in 2020. The\u00a0New South Wales Government\u00a0declared a\u00a0state of emergency. The Australian Fire Departments, Police, Army and other volunteers are working around the clock to salvage what\u2019s left behind. <\/p>\n<p>Social media users have started a campaign to raise funds to help save Australia and also pray for the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"\/><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p>Videos and Images of fire in Australia: <\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200105_105831.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"112043\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ghgossip.com\/?attachment_id=112043\" class=\"wp-image-112043\"  \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200105_115613.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"112060\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.ghgossip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200105_115613.jpg?fit=712%2C401&#038;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ghgossip.com\/?attachment_id=112060\" class=\"wp-image-112060\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200105_105836.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112045\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Picture of animals burnt in the fire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/fire_season_1600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112046\"  \/><figcaption>Fire department working around the clock to salvage the situation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200105_113330.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112048\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"\/><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"6783249104af2062e142203f-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n          var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n          if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n          js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n          js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1009694476028322&version=v2.3\";\n          fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n        }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is facing it biggest ever national crisis and doesn\u2019t seem to quench anytime soon. Wild bushfires ravaging rural communities across the nation. Australia is not new to bushfires but this year\u2019s bushfire season has been described as \u201cunprecedented\u201d in their ferocity and scale. An estimated\u00a0number of 6.3\u00a0million hectares (16\u00a0million acres; 63,000 square kilometres; 24,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Forest fires in Australia kills 25 people and over 500 million animals. - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/05\/forest-fires-in-australia-kills-25-people-and-over-500-million-animals\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Forest fires in Australia kills 25 people and over 500 million animals. - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Australia is facing it biggest ever national crisis and doesn\u2019t seem to quench anytime soon. 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