Thousands Flee Australian Fires
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SYDNEY, Australia — Tree-lined streets exploded into infernos today while thousands of people jammed into cars with their belongings and fled huge brush fires raging in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia’s biggest city.
Thousands of houses were feared to be in jeopardy.
More than 130 fires were blazing today along the 750-mile eastern seaboard of New South Wales state. Witnesses reported seeing flames 80 feet high and walls of fire miles long racing through bush land. Police said they suspect that arsonists set more than half the fires.
Earlier in the week, three people were killed in the fires.
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