If a Hollywood producer ordered up these images, they might be dismissed as too dramatic: orange skies; ash-filled rain; fire tornadoes; flames jumping as high as 230 feet; people huddling for shelter on the beach. Australias wildfires are a disaster on a scale hard to fathom, charring an area roughly the size of West Virginia. Californias massive 2018 blazes hit a sixth as much land as Australias have so far this fire season. Government officials report that a third of the koalas in New South Wales might be gone. The nations eucalyptus forests may be damaged for good.
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