Australian fires v california fires. City and a graphic incorrectly showed the size of the amazon rainforest fires and the 2019 california fires. While battling the wine country fires noggles worked with a group of his australian peers who had been sent to california to help fight those fires. Almost exactly 12 months earlier residents of california were sent running for their lives from wildfires leading to a national disaster being declared.
Cobb said that the group was stationed in northern california washington and oregon. Jan 8 2020 the devastating california wildfires of 2018 and last years fires in siberia made international headlines and shocked the world but in terms of size they are far smaller than the. For nearly 30 days.
The graph titled black summer fires compares the mendocino complex fire amazon fires siberian fires and current australian fires. Australia experiences fires every fall but this years crisis which comes on the heels of a heat wave and prolonged drought is unprecedented. In august 2018 australia and new zealand sent roughly 140 firefighters to the us.
Californias disastrous wildfires pale in comparison to australias catastrophic fires cbs sf the scenes of wildfire devastation and smoke coming from australia may appear familiar to many californians who have been dealing with a seemingly never ending string of wildfires in recent years. The weeks of fires claimed just under one million hectares of the amazon which is about 100000 hectares more than what has so far been lost in victoria alone. By comparison the fires that plagued the brazilian amazon last year burned 175 million acres of rainforest which is 7 million fewer acres than the impacted area in australia.
In addition a map miscalculated the size of australias wildfires compared to a us.