{"id":50437,"date":"2020-01-06T06:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50437"},"modified":"2020-01-06T06:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:58:58","slug":"its-an-atomic-bomb-australia-deploys-military-as-firenados-wreak-havoc-fire-crisis-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50437","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s an Atomic Bomb\u201d: Australia Deploys Military as \u2018Firenados\u2019 Wreak Havoc, Fire Crisis Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/2020\/01\/australia-deploys-military-firenados-wreak-havoc-fire-crisis-grows.html\">\u201cIt\u2019s an Atomic Bomb\u201d: Australia Deploys Military as \u2018Firenados\u2019 Wreak Havoc, Fire Crisis Grows<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s fires have grown so monstrous that they are now generating their own weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/firenados-740x410.png\" alt=\"Firenados\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/\">TMU<\/a>)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Australia\u2019s government has announced that it would call up 3,000 military reservists to confront an unprecedented bushfire crisis that is producing nightmarish \u201cfirenados\u201d\u2014cyclonic fire-tornadoes\u2014and conditions that some are comparing to the aftermath of nuclear warfare.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, beleaguered Prime Minister Scott Morrison sought to reassure the country\u2019s population that his government would take unprecedented measures to contain the fires, which have raged since September. According to&nbsp;<em>AFP<\/em>, Morrison&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/15\/military-reservists-called-thousands-flee-australian-fires-doc-1nf6kw3\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cToday\u2019s decision puts more boots on the ground, puts more planes in the sky, puts more ships at sea.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The addition of 3,000 reservists to firefighting efforts, which have already seen the deployment of roughly 2,000 military personnel, amounts to what authorities say is most likely the largest maritime rescue operation in Australia\u2019s history,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/04\/world\/australia\/fires-military.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=fb-nytimes\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>. Military aircraft, naval ships, and other materiel will also be made available to assist evacuation and firefighting efforts.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defense Minister Linda Reynolds said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cThe government has not taken this decision lightly \u2026 It is the first time that reserves have been called out in this way in living memory.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The environmental calamity has been stoked by a combination of extreme winds, record-shattering heat waves, and drought-parched forests, grasslands, and brush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s bushfires have also grown so monstrous that they are generating their own weather in the form of pyro-cumulonimbus clouds\u2014dry thunderstorms that create more fires\u2014according to Victoria\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology. Fire-generated thunderstorms have appeared over the fires in two different locations. NASA describes them as the\u00a0<em>\u201cfire-breathing dragon of clouds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an Atomic Bomb\u201d: Australia Deploys Military as \u2018Firenados\u2019 Wreak Havoc, Fire Crisis Grows Australia\u2019s fires have grown so monstrous that they are now generating their own weather.\u00a0 (TMU)&nbsp;\u2014 Australia\u2019s government has announced that it would call up 3,000 military reservists to confront an unprecedented bushfire crisis that is producing nightmarish \u201cfirenados\u201d\u2014cyclonic fire-tornadoes\u2014and conditions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,24515,28786,21717],"class_list":["post-50437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-elias-marat","tag-firenados","tag-the-mind-unleashed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50438,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50437\/revisions\/50438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}