{"id":12894,"date":"2020-02-07T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12894"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T10:00:27","slug":"heavy-pours-breaking-the-back-of-australian-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12894","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Pours &#8216;breaking the back&#8217; of Australian Bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\">\n<p>Heavy rain was raising hopes Friday for an end to Australia&#8217;s unprecedented bush fire crisis, as downpours douse blazes that have burned out of control for months.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating fires, fuelled by prolonged drought and record-high temperatures, have raged since September, burning more than 25 million acres and killing 33 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An estimated billion animals have perished in the fires that destroyed more than 2,500 homes.<\/p>\n<p>The rains in New South Wales (NSW), which began earlier in the week in some areas and are forecast to extend into next week, are expected to drench a number of the remaining fires and help contain others.<\/p>\n<p>By Friday afternoon there were no bushfires burning in NSW at the most dangerous emergency or &#8220;watch and act&#8221; levels &#8212; a situation virtually unseen in almost half a year.<\/p>\n<p>Beleaguered volunteer firefighters who have fought the blazes day-in-day-out declared themselves &#8220;over the moon&#8221; at the rain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\">\n<p>As the bushfire crisis abates, authorities are now bracing for possible flooding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Bureau of Meteorology issued a string of flood warnings and said some parts of NSW will see their highest rainfall totals in four years.<\/p>\n<p>Bushfires are an annual problem during the southern summer, but flared far more widely and earlier than usual following months of severe drought and high temperatures linked to climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain was raising hopes Friday for an end to Australia&#8217;s unprecedented bush fire crisis, as downpours douse blazes that have burned out of control for months. The devastating fires, fuelled by prolonged drought and record-high temperatures, have raged since September, burning more than 25 million acres and killing 33 people. An estimated billion animals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12898,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions\/12898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}