HEALESVILLE, Australia – Towering flames razed entire towns in southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents in their cars as the death toll rose to 84 on Sunday, making it the country’s deadliest fire disaster.
At least 700 homes were destroyed in Saturday’s inferno when searing temperatures and wind blasts produced a firestorm that swept across a swath of the country’s Victoria state, where all the deaths occurred.
“Hell in all its fury has visited the good people of Victoria,” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told reporters as he toured the fire zone on Sunday. “It’s an appalling tragedy for the nation.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090208/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_wildfires
Deepest sympathies to the families, fire fighters, wild land fire fighters that have witnessed the devastation. The loss of lives and the harshness of it all will be etched in the nations’s psyche.
SwittersB & Exploring 
That was the hottest fire picture I ever saw!
My condolences too.
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