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ऑस्ट्रेलिया : विक्टोरिया के जंगल में आग बुझा रहे एक दमकलकर्मी की मौत - क्रिस हार्डमैन
समूचा दक्षिण पूर्वी ऑस्ट्रेलिया जंगल की आग से जूझ रहा है और कई दमकलकर्मी इसे बुझाने के काम में लगे हैं. इन्हीं दमकलकर्मियों में से एक बिल स्लेड की शनिवार को पूर्वी विक्टोरिया राज्य में ओमियो के पास मौत हो गई. इस हादसे से जंगल की आग से उपजे संकट में मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़कर 27 हो गई है.
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Published : Jan 12, 2020, 4:40 PM IST
कैनबरा : ऑस्ट्रेलिया में जंगल की आग के संकट से पूरी रात जूझ रहा एक दमकलकर्मी अचानक एक पेड़ के गिरने से आग चपेट में आ गया. इस कारण उसकी मौत हो गई.
वहीं आस्ट्रेलिया के प्रधानमंत्री ने रविवार को कहा कि उनकी सरकार जलवायु परिवर्तन के चलते आग के खतरे से निबटने के लिए सक्षम तरीके अपनाएगी.
समूचा दक्षिण पूर्वी ऑस्ट्रेलिया जंगल की आग से जूझ रहा है और कई दमकलकर्मी इसे बुझाने के काम में लगे हैं. विक्टोरिया के वन दमकल प्रबंधन के कार्यकारी निदेशक क्रिस हार्डमैन ने बताया कि इन्हीं दमकलकर्मियों में से एक बिल स्लेड की शनिवार को पूर्वी विक्टोरिया राज्य में ओमियो के पास मौत हो गई.
पढ़ें- ऑस्ट्रेलिया : न्यू साउथ वेल्स में 130 से ज्यादा इलाके आग की चपेट में
उन्होंने बताया कि 60 वर्षीय स्लेड को पिछले साल नवंबर में वन एजेंसी में उनकी 40 साल की सेवा के लिए सराहा गया था.
इस हादसे से जंगल की आग संकट में मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़कर 27 हो गई है.
कैनबरा : ऑस्ट्रेलिया में जंगल की आग के संकट से पूरी रात जूझ रहा एक दमकलकर्मी अचानक एक पेड़ के गिरने से आग चपेट में आ गया. इस कारण उसकी मौत हो गई.
वहीं आस्ट्रेलिया के प्रधानमंत्री ने रविवार को कहा कि उनकी सरकार जलवायु परिवर्तन के चलते आग के खतरे से निबटने के लिए सक्षम तरीके अपनाएगी.
समूचा दक्षिण पूर्वी ऑस्ट्रेलिया जंगल की आग से जूझ रहा है और कई दमकलकर्मी इसे बुझाने के काम में लगे हैं. विक्टोरिया के वन दमकल प्रबंधन के कार्यकारी निदेशक क्रिस हार्डमैन ने बताया कि इन्हीं दमकलकर्मियों में से एक बिल स्लेड की शनिवार को पूर्वी विक्टोरिया राज्य में ओमियो के पास मौत हो गई.
पढ़ें- ऑस्ट्रेलिया : न्यू साउथ वेल्स में 130 से ज्यादा इलाके आग की चपेट में
उन्होंने बताया कि 60 वर्षीय स्लेड को पिछले साल नवंबर में वन एजेंसी में उनकी 40 साल की सेवा के लिए सराहा गया था.
इस हादसे से जंगल की आग संकट में मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़कर 27 हो गई है.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA
SHOTLIST:
CHANNEL 7 – NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA
Melbourne – 12 January 2020
1. Victoria state fire officials arriving for news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Hardman, Chief Fire Officer for Forest Fire Management Victoria State:
"Yesterday (Saturday) we had a loss of a forest firefighter at Omeo, Bill Slade. Bill is survived by his wife Carrol, his daughter Steph and his son Ethan. Bill has been a long serving member of Parks Victoria. This is a significant loss for the Forest Fire Management Victoria family and the Victorian community as a whole. Bill was working as a member of a task force in the Anglers Rest area and he was struck by a tree."
3. Hardman and officials leaving
AuBC– NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA
Canberra – 12 January 2020
++SOUNDBITES SEPERATED BY BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister:
"This national crisis has seen the loss of 28 lives with one other confirmed overnight in Victoria, which is terribly sad. The response that has been provided to these fires and led by our state governments has been absolutely extraordinary. I have no doubt that without their preparations and the support they were provided in those preparations going into this unprecedented season that has been described, we would have seen even further losses as tragic as the ones that we've had. Over 2,000 homes (lost). But, again, I suspect that because of the amazing response that has been provided on the ground to these fires, many, many more homes would have been lost."
++BLACK FRAMES++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister:
"This is a longer-term risk framework model which deals with one of the big issues in response to climate changing and that is the resilience and the adaptation that we need in our community right across the country to deal with longer, hotter, drier seasons that increase the risk of bushfire."
++BLACK FRAMES++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister:
"The government's policy is set by the Cabinet. My party room has a broad, no, no, David, let me finish my answer. Our party has a broad array of views just like the Australian community has a broad array of views, and you've got to take everybody with you. Climate change, it is the government's policy has obviously impacted on the longer, hotter, dryer, summer seasons, and that's the advice we've received and that is not contested. That is the position of the government, OK, let there be no dispute about that."
++BLACK FRAMES++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister:
"I think there is obviously a need for a national review of the response and let's not forget, they're not finished."
(Reporter's question off camera: A royal commission, is that what you're talking about?)
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister:
"I think that is what would be necessary and I'll be taking a proposal through cabinet to that end, but it must be done in consultation with the states and territories. So, I think Australians have a very reasonable expectation that any commission of inquiry, royal commission, would need to cover the full gambit of issues. And I think there are three to those. There is obviously the operational response which would normally be looked at and I have no doubt the states will undertake their own operational reviews of their own exercise during and post this event."
(Reporter's question off camera: "The royal commission might run for a year. You can act in the interim?")
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister:
"Let me say there are two other issues that it would need to address. The second one would be this federal issue of how the states and the territories and the new role, potentially, of the Commonwealth and that needs to be fully assessed. And the third one, David, I think, is it has to be done in the acknowledgment, not to seek an answer to but in the acknowledgment, of the climate we now live in and how that and how climate change has affected that. That is not an issue of dispute. That is an issue of acknowledgment."
AuBC– NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA
Sydney – 12 January 2020
10. Various of Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Catholic Diocese of Sydney:
"As our nation passes through its baptism of fire, it can emerge stronger and greater than before. Together let us pray for great outpouring of rain from the heavens to cleanse our land of destruction and may revivify both the bush and our hearts. Together, let us stand with those who are suffering the destruction of drought and fire and all those assisting them."
12. Mass at cathedral
STORYLINE:
Another firefighter has died battling the Australian wildfire crisis and the prime minister on Sunday said his government was adapting and building resilience to the fire danger posed by climate change.
The firefighter, one of the few professionals among mainly volunteer brigades battling blazes across southeast Australia, died on Saturday near Omeo in eastern Victoria state, Chief Fire Officer for Forest Fire Management Victoria State Chris Hardman told reporters.
Hardman said he was struck by a tree.
The tragedy brings the death toll to at least 28 people in a crisis that has destroyed more than 2,000 homes and scorched an area larger than the U.S. state of Indiana since September.
Four of the casualties were firefighters.
Authorities are using relatively benign conditions forecast in southeast Australia for a week or more to consolidate containment lines around scores of fires that are likely to burn for weeks without heavy rainfall.
The reprieve from severe fire conditions promises to be the longest of the current fire season.
The crisis has brought accusations that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's conservative government needs to take more action to counter climate change, which experts say has worsened the blazes.
Morrison said his government was developing a national disaster risk reduction framework within the Department of Home Affairs that will deal with wildfires, cyclones, floods and drought.
The government was currently working through the details of the framework with local governments.
"This is a longer-term risk framework model which deals with one of the big issues in response to climate changing and that is the resilience and the adaptation that we need in our community right across the country to deal with longer, hotter, drier seasons that increase the risk of bushfire", Morrison told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Morrison said his government accepted that climate change was leading to longer, hotter and drier summers, despite junior government lawmaker George Christensen posting on social media over the weekend that the cause of the latest fires was arson rather than man-made climate change.
While the fire threat is most acute in rural communities, wildfire smoke that has choked some of Australia's largest cities is a reminder to many urban Australians of the unfolding disaster.
Meanwhile, parishioners prayed for rain and for those suffering from wildfires at Sunday mass at Sydney's St. Mary's Cathedral.
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