{"id":11770,"date":"2025-12-07T03:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-activates-disaster-relief-for-wildfire-hit-new-south-wales-state\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:39:40","slug":"australia-activates-disaster-relief-for-wildfire-hit-new-south-wales-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-activates-disaster-relief-for-wildfire-hit-new-south-wales-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia activates disaster relief for wildfire-hit New South Wales state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>SYDNEY &ndash; Australia on Sunday (Dec 7) activated disaster relief for residents impacted by wildfires that have burnt properties, infrastructure and thousands of hectares of bushland in the country&rsquo;s most populous state.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 wildfires were burning in New South Wales on Sunday, a day after they destroyed at least 12 homes in the state&rsquo;s central coast region, with a population of more than 350,000 people, about 45km north of the state capital Sydney, Australia&rsquo;s largest city.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have warned of a high-risk bush fire season this Australian summer with increased risk of extreme heat forecast for large swaths of the country, after several quiet seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said fortunately there had been no loss of life so far in the fires.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This summer, of course, like all summers it would appear in recent times, is going to be a difficult one,&rdquo; Albanese said in remarks on Australian Broadcasting Corp television on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Federal and New South Wales Labor governments said in a statement that disaster assistance was activated for six state regions hit by fires, which sparked in extreme heat on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>&ldquo;Initial assessments indicate a number of homes have been destroyed with extensive damage to more private property, critical infrastructure, fencing, agricultural assets and National Parks,&rdquo; the statement said, adding that the extent of damage would become clearer as impact assessments were done.<\/p>\n<p>The aid included &ldquo;immediate financial help as well as clean-up, rebuilding and recovery assistance,&rdquo; according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Two fires in New South Wales continued to burn out of control on Sunday at the second-highest danger rating, according to the state&rsquo;s Rural Fire Service.<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales is one of the most wildfire-prone regions in Australia, with the risk increasing due to climate change. Australia&rsquo;s &ldquo;Black Summer&rdquo; fires of 2019-2020 destroyed an area the size of Turkey and killed 33 people.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:726362]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Australia activates disaster relief for wildfire-hit New South Wales state<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY &ndash; Australia on Sunday (Dec 7) activated disaster relief for residents impacted by wildfires that have burnt properties, infrastructure and thousands of hectares of bushland in the country&rsquo;s most populous state. More than 60 wildfires were burning in New South Wales on Sunday, a day after they destroyed at least 12 homes in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-activates-disaster-relief-for-wildfire-hit-new-south-wales-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Australia activates disaster relief for wildfire-hit New South Wales state&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}