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Australia wildfires burn more than 300,000 hectares in Victoria

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Canberra : Australian authorities said wildfires that broke out earlier this week amid an intense heatwave in the south of the country have burned more than 300,000 hectares of forest, with 10 major fires still active across Victoria state. Authorities reported that more than 130 buildings, including homes, were destroyed, while power outages affected around 38,000 residences and businesses. The fires were described as the most severe to hit Vic…
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Authorities estimate that the fight against the bushfires in southeastern Australia will continue for weeks. The fires, which have been raging in the state of Victoria since the middle of the week, have already destroyed homes, cut off power to thousands of households, and burned large areas of bushland, officials said on Sunday. In total, more than 300,000 hectares of land and over 130 houses have been destroyed.

A state of emergency has been declared in Australia due to devastating bushfires that have completely destroyed hundreds of buildings, farmland and forest in the southeast of the country. A heatwave is sweeping across the state of Victoria, with temperatures in many places exceeding 40 degrees. One person has died and many are missing. 300 thousand hectares have been destroyed by the firesDry winds are fueling the bushfires, which are said to be…

Australian authorities say it will take firefighters weeks to bring under control the massive bushfires that broke out in the southeastern state of Victoria on Wednesday and have since destroyed dozens of buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and scorched hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, Reuters reported.

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Starvision News broke the news in on Saturday, January 10, 2026.
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