The Independent: Residents told it's 'too late to leave' as wildfire in Western Australia triples in size

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https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/bushfire-western-australia-wa-too-late-to-leave-b2655787.html

Residents told it’s ‘too late to leave’ as wildfire in Western Australia triples in size
‘Fire has impacted evacuation routes and leaving now will put your life in danger,’ emergency services warn townsfolk

Shweta Sharma
Friday 29 November 2024 10:08 GMT

A string of coastal communities in Western Australia have been warned it is “too late to leave” as raging bushfires cut off towns and evacuations roads.

Emergency warnings remain in place for communities in Wedge Island, Grey, Cervantes, Nambung, and Cooljarlo, but the residents have no way to get out.

An out-of-control fire, whipped up by dry winds, has laid waste to more than 73,000 hectares of bushland over the past four days.

But a warning issued by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services for Cervantes, Cooljarloo and Nambung on Friday read: “Too late to leave.”

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1. How awful! We are seeing more and more of this devastation.

Global warming caused climate crisis devastation in real time.
I wish prayers worked because there is little one can do but watch and hope rains come and winds calm.

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2. World Resources Institute: The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse

https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires

The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse

August 13, 2024 By James MacCarthy, Jessica Richter, Sasha Tyukavina, Mikaela Weisse and Nancy Harris

The latest data on forest fires confirms what we've long feared: Forest fires are becoming more widespread, burning at least twice as much tree cover today as they did two decades ago.

Using data from researchers at the University of Maryland, recently updated to cover the years 2001 to 2023, we calculated that the area burned by forest fires increased by about 5.4% per year over that time period. Forest fires now result in nearly 6 million more hectares of tree cover loss per year than they did in 2001 — an area roughly the size of Croatia.

Fire is also making up a larger share of global tree cover loss compared to other drivers like mining and forestry. While fires only accounted for about 20% of all tree cover loss in 2001, they now account for roughly 33%.


This increase in fire activity has been starkly visible in recent years. Record-setting forest fires are becoming the norm, with 2020, 2021 and 2023 marking the fourth, third and first worst years for global forest fires, respectively.

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❝ … Record-setting forest fires are becoming the norm … ❞

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3. Thank you for this.

Trees and wildlife. The loss, suffering, and devastation is hard to fathom, and it will worsen.

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4. And, where the trees and "wildlife" go, we will follow

Or, we may lead…