There are over 100 wildfires currently ravaging New South Wales , the bountiful of which just burned 182,000 satisfying miles ( 470km2 ) in the Blue Mountains . fit in to Australia ’s Rural Fire Service , this special blaze was “ get down as a outcome of live ordnance practice ” at an army range .
The Defence Department did n’t comment , but said there ’s an inner investigating into the explosives education exercise recently lead at the Marrangaroo preparation area .
TheSydney Morning Heraldsays :
U. S. Army set out across Australia are failing to rise bushfire plans in conformity with Defence rules . A source with close cognition of army training sphere direction said Defence brass knew of the defect in set up up bushfire programme but had not acted because of a lack of resource .
” There is just an amazingly casual approach to the whole thing , with no mitigation architectural plan in place at all , ” the source , who bespeak anonymity , said . ” They have known for a mates of years that these plans do n’t be but they do n’t do anything about it because there is no money . They are conjecture to have site - specific flame management plans . ”
Army personnel who expressed concern about the lack of flak management plans had been told ” do n’t worry … we will get to it ” , the source said . But leaked inner Defence correspondence , seen by Fairfax Media , indicates that Defence ’s Directorate of Training Area Management knew that wander across Australia had go to implement bushfire design , even though such plans were involve in a 2011 fire protection manual of arms .
Since last Thursday , owe to the over 100 wildfires now blaze across New South Wales , more than 200 homes have been destroyed , and there has been one fatality . This is very unsettling to Australians , as the wildfire time of year does n’t typically get afoot until January .
Here’sa NASA ESO image of the wildfire as seen from space :
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