Firefighters in South Australia and Victoria are battling out-of-control bushfires, with warnings today’s conditions in the Adelaide Hills are the worst since Ash Wednesday more than 30 years ago.
A huge bushfire at Sampson Flat in the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges north-east of Adelaide has already destroyed homes and is expected to turn south fanned by winds of up to 110 kilometres per hour. A major emergency has been declared.
Meanwhile, temperatures are forecast to reach above 40 degrees Celsius in Victoria, hampering conditions for firefighters battling a fire which is threatening Maroona in the state’s west.
