• Workers cut down burned trees to clear the roads after a bushfire in Batlow, in Australia's New South Wales state, Wednesday. Australian officials issued fresh evacuation warnings ahead of a forecast spike in the intensity of out-of-control bushfires that have devastated vast swaths of countryside and sent smoke clouds as far away as Brazil. | AFP-JIJI
    Workers cut down burned trees to clear the roads after a bushfire in Batlow, in Australia's New South Wales state, Wednesday. Australian officials issued fresh evacuation warnings ahead of a forecast spike in the intensity of out-of-control bushfires that have devastated vast swaths of countryside and sent smoke clouds as far away as Brazil. | AFP-JIJI

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MERIMBULA, AUSTRALIA/MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA – Australian authorities issued new warnings and evacuation notices across the country’s heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather fanned huge bush fires threatening several towns and communities.

A disaster notice in Victoria state, already in place for the past week, was extended by two days and people in danger zones were told to leave. In neighboring New South Wales state, authorities told residents to prepare for worsening weather conditions on Friday.

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