On Monday, Courtney Tallon, an LBI native now living Down Under, cited New South Wales Rural Fire Service’s most recent Twitter post as an accurate update on Australia’s wildfires: “Currently there are 62 bush and grass fires burning in NSW, 29 still to be contained. Easing conditions have seen all fires now at the Advice alert level,” the lowest level of Bush Fire Alerts. “More than 1,500 firefighters will use favourable conditions to work on containment of a number of large fires today.”
New South Wales – in southeast Australia – has been hardest hit by the fires that have raged within the country since…
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