Fires Continue Raging in Southeast
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Faced with walls of flames, firefighters gave up trying to put out the rampaging forest fires around Sydney’s southern suburbs and instead focused on saving lives and property. The toll--two firefighters dead, 38 homes destroyed and half a million acres scorched--raised fears that the blazes could be even more destructive than those that killed four people and razed more than 200 homes around the southeastern seaport in January 1994.
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