{"id":118147,"date":"2019-11-09T02:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T01:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/09\/nsw-and-queensland-fires-two-people-dead-seven-unaccounted-for-and-more-than-100-homes-destroyed-live\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T02:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T01:52:16","slug":"nsw-and-queensland-fires-two-people-dead-seven-unaccounted-for-and-more-than-100-homes-destroyed-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=118147","title":{"rendered":"NSW and Queensland fires: two people dead, seven unaccounted for and more than 100 homes destroyed \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW\u2019s Glen Innes the site of confirmed deaths and missing persons, as 77 bushfires still burn across the east-coast states\u2022 Full report: At least 100 homes destroyed in NSW and Queensland fires 1.48am GMT There have been a few questions to the PM, including one about the ferocity of these early fires and links to climate change.\u201cMy only thoughts today are those who lost their lives and their families, the firefighters fighting the fires, the response effort that has to be delivered, and how the the Commonwealth can support those efforts,\u201d he replied.\u201cWe always have to listen carefully to the warnings, and undertake the preparations that are advised in every single season. I think that Australians increasingly understand that and I would be encouraging them to revisit their fire preparation plans. The fire might be on your doorstep today, but as we go into every fire season and every summer season, the risk is ever present, and it\u2019s important that families understand what the evacuation procedures are. What numbers to call. What things to ready themselves with, and how they can best prepare their properties in the event of a firestorm. 1.44am GMT Prime minister Scott Morrison is speaking now \u2013 and he\u2019s flagged a \u201ccontingency option\u201d of further involvement of the defence forces.He said the deployment of ADF \u2013 beyond the airlifts they\u2019re already doing \u2013 hadn\u2019t been requested yet, but he and relevant ministers were discussing having them ready. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2019\/nov\/09\/nsw-and-queensland-fires-more-than-100-homes-destroyed-and-three-people-missing-live\" target=\"_blank\">NSW and Queensland fires: two people dead, seven unaccounted for and more than 100 homes destroyed \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW\u2019s Glen Innes the site of confirmed deaths and missing persons, as 77 bushfires still burn across the east-coast states\u2022 Full report: At least 100 homes destroyed in NSW and Queensland fires 1.48am GMT There have been a few questions to the PM, including one about the ferocity of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}