Suspicious huge fires in an Australian state (photos)

Firefighters in Western Australia controlled 6 fires in the southwest of the state, most likely to have been set off deliberately, while the rain helped stop a week-long fire that destroyed 86 homes in the Perth hills.

The Australian State Fire and Emergency Services Department said all the suspicious fires, which are now being investigated, began around the same time, on Saturday evening, and were close to each other.

The torrential rains over the weekend helped contain those fires and allowed firefighters to control a devastating fire that destroyed an area of ​​27,181 acres of land.

Thousands were forced to flee their homes last week in Perth, which imposed a general isolation imposed on Monday for five days on the state capital, after Western Australia discovered its first infection with the Corona virus in ten months.

And the media reported that the rains over the weekend were the first in a month in some areas that witnessed fires, which allowed people to obtain permits to return to their homes and know the extent of the damage.

For his part, the Met Office said that the rain is expected to continue on Sunday. And those rains caused torrential floods in parts of the state.

Although bushfires are commonplace in Australia, last week’s fires brought to mind the memories of the fires that swept eastern, southern and western Australia last year and destroyed more than 31 million acres, roughly the size of Greece. The fires destroyed more than three thousand homes, and 33 people were killed.

Source: Reuters

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