Authorities issued an emergency warning for an uncontrolled bushfire which threatening lives and homes in Bullsbrook, northeast of Perth on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, a “watch and act” alert was issued for a bush blaze near St Marys on Tasmania’s east coast where residents were being urged to enact bushfire plans.
It came as heatwave conditions began to hit large swathes of Australia’s eastern and southern coasts, bringing high fire danger to the bushfire-ravaged states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.