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Tourists, firefighters flee as new heatwave fans Australia blazes

by Holly ROBERTSON Agence France Presse Tourists and firefighters were forced to flee vast fires burning in southeastern Australia on Monday, as a heatwave rekindled devastating bush blazes across the country. Authorities said “quite a number” of the 30,000 tourists visiting the usually picturesque southeast tip of the continent had heeded calls to evacuate. More than a dozen blazes are raging in the East Gippsland countryside, some so intensely that hundreds of firefighters were pulled […]