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11/01/2005
Bushfires in southern Australia kill eight people
At least eight people have been burned to death as a massive bushfire swept across a peninsula in southern Australia.
The eight dead, including two children, all lost their lives when they were trapped in their vehicles by flames. In the town of Wanilla two people were killed and several properties were destroyed by the inferno. In nearby North Shields, a number of people were rescued from the sea after they took to beaches and then the water to avoid the worst of the bushfires that swept out of control across the Eyre Peninsula which is 150 miles west of Adelaide.
Australian police are still trying to account for several people believed to be missing following the incident in which pandemonium broke out as people fled the flames which swept across an estimated 250,000 acres of bush.
The blaze is the first major bushfire in the Australian summer's hottest spell so far - temperatures have climbed to 40 degrees Centigrade this week.
The fire broke out in scrubland near Port Lincoln and firefighters were unable to control a number of blazes which, fanned by high winds, spread rapidly overnight threatening to engulf a number of small towns and hamlets in the area.
Authorities in South Australia have warned that temperatures in the region are forecast to remain high and another bushfire was reported to have broken out near Adelaide today.
(SP)
The eight dead, including two children, all lost their lives when they were trapped in their vehicles by flames. In the town of Wanilla two people were killed and several properties were destroyed by the inferno. In nearby North Shields, a number of people were rescued from the sea after they took to beaches and then the water to avoid the worst of the bushfires that swept out of control across the Eyre Peninsula which is 150 miles west of Adelaide.
Australian police are still trying to account for several people believed to be missing following the incident in which pandemonium broke out as people fled the flames which swept across an estimated 250,000 acres of bush.
The blaze is the first major bushfire in the Australian summer's hottest spell so far - temperatures have climbed to 40 degrees Centigrade this week.
The fire broke out in scrubland near Port Lincoln and firefighters were unable to control a number of blazes which, fanned by high winds, spread rapidly overnight threatening to engulf a number of small towns and hamlets in the area.
Authorities in South Australia have warned that temperatures in the region are forecast to remain high and another bushfire was reported to have broken out near Adelaide today.
(SP)
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