It started with a thunderstorm .. Forest fires sweep rural areas in Australia

Firefighting elements in Australia are “everything they can” to control forest fires that sweep rural areas in the southeast of the country, which forced the authorities to evacuate a small town, while not causing deaths or injuries.

On Monday evening, a thunderbolt set several fires in Grampeans National Park, which is a mountain range of about 300 km west of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria.

Population protection

“At this time, firefighting elements are planning to make every ability to protect the population,” said Victoria Hardman’s head of forest fire department head,

The head of the state fire service, Jason Hefernan, said that forest fires, which are transmitted quickly, spread across 40 kilometers of the National Park, where hot winds blew across the area on Monday evening.

Reduce the level of threat

In the west of Victoria, another forest fire came at 65,000 hectares in the Little Desert National Park, and forced the residents of Dembola the agricultural town to evacuate, before reducing the level of threat on Tuesday afternoon.

“I am very grateful for no lives or reporting injuries,” Emergency Commissioner Rick Nogant told reporters.

After several rainy years, Australia is witnessing one of the worst forest fires since the catastrophic fires it witnessed in 2019 and 2020.