Australia Fires Update Rain

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Australia fires update rain. Ms Neville said 220 new blazes had started in. Australia is expected to get heavy rain this week but officials say it wont be enough to tamp down the raging wildfires that have gripped the country for months. According to New South Wales Rural Fire Service media officer James Morris the torrential rain helped put out the Currowan fire on Saturday.

A deluge is now falling on Australias. This rain has been so welcome after the fires and the drought up here. Heavier falls were between Taree and Murwillumbah.

Thunderstorms and torrential rain have wreaked havoc in the fire-devastated states of New South Wales Queensland and Victoria. Torrential rain across the east coast of Australia has extinguished a third of the fires in the region - and could put more out officials say. Taree has received 47mm rainfall Port Macquarie had 28mm and Byron Bay has received 57mm rainfall.

Relief is here for a number of firefighters. Heavy rains in the state of New South Wales this week contained the last of a series of deadly wildfires some of them lasting for months to plague Australia. That particular fire burned 499621 hectares of land.

The Yarra River in Melbourne turns brown as dust in the rain pours in from the north. The rains are not expected to end the drought or extinguish all the fires. Victorians have been given some relief as more bushfires have been brought under control and rain hit South Australia where 32 homes were destroyed.

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