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Bushfire threat still high as Australia clean up begins
7 years agoResident Warren Smith inspects the damage after returning to find his house destroyed in the bushfires near the small town of Nana Glen, some 600kms north of Sydney, on November 13, 2019. - Bushfires raging across eastern Australia singed Sydney's suburbs, with firefighters scrambling planes and helicopters to douse a built-up neighbourhood with water and red retardant. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP)
Australians on Wednesday began sifting through the ashes of hundreds of bushfires that have ravaged the country, relieved that their worst fears were unrealised -- but wary of a long and brutal summer ahead.
