Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard

https://www.insider.com/australia-fi...n-fires-2020-1

It's hard to comprehend the size of the affected area in Australia. In total, the area of burned land (14.6 million acres) is twice the size of Belgium. Nearly six times more acres have burned in Australia than in California's devastating 2018 wildfire season when the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise. In my State alone there's a million acres currently on fire, so a long way from doing final numbers
---... BUT

This only getting started, peak fire season is really the next month, these fires cant be put out there too big. Hopefully, we can turn them a bit so they miss towns and eventually they blowback into an already burnt area.

The sad reality is the plan today is not to put the fires out so much as try and have a day where no one dies.