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'Australia is on fire' because of 'climate change,' said the left. Turns out it was two dozen arsonists.
Whoops. PHIL SHIVER THE BLAZE More than 180 people have been arrested in Australia for bushfire-related offenses — including 24 for arson — since November, the New South Wales Police Force announced in a news release Monday. "Of note, 24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires, 53 people have had legal actions for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, and 47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a lighted cigarette or match on land," the release stated. Australia has been engulfed with flames since late July as part of the worst wildfire season in decades. The state of New South Wales has experienced the deaths of at least 18 people, the destruction of millions of animals, and the scorching of 4.9 million hectares of land. The fires prompted two Australian states — New South Wales and Queensland — to declare states of emergency last November. Since then, the fires have continued to worsen, eventually garnering international attention. Climate change? Not so fastThe news may come as a surprise to viewers of Sunday's Golden Globe Awards or followers of several candidates in the Democratic presidential field, as many on the left have insisted that man-made climate change was most certainly the cause of the Australian bushfire crisis. read more Video shows scorched sheep roaming fire-ravaged Australia By Amanda Woods January 8, 2020 | 12:31pm. NEW YORK POST MORE ON:AUSTRALIA BUSHFIRES Devastating video of the fallout from Australia’s ongoing bush fires shows helpless sheep wandering with blackened coats among the charred carcasses of other animals who succumbed to the smoke and flames. The footage, captured by local resident Micah Lovegrove, 19, on Jan. 4, shows the handful of remaining sheep meandering around fire-ravaged farmland in Kangaroo Island, off the mainland state of South Australia. The clip includes a close-up of one of the animals, showing that it had been badly burned. Other lifeless animals lay on their sides on the parched farmland. Lovegrove was the same teen who — along with his cousin — scooped some native koalas into their vehicle to save them from the fires. read more below
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A few days earlier and more than 900 miles away in the rural Victoria town of Corryong, a hero border collie named Patsy saved a flock of sheep as a wall of fire destroyed local farmland, Metro UK reported. Patsy, 6, rounded up the sheep with a farmer as the flames encroached on the rural town. She herded them into a safe enclosure as her owner fought the fire in a tractor with a tank of water, according to the report. Almost all of the animals were saved. In one photo posted to Instagram by Cath Hill — the sister of Patsy’s owner — the hero dog can be seen sitting on the scorched farmland, with smoke billowing in the distance. “This is Patsy just after she and her human brought the sheep to safety on the morning of New Year’s Eve,” the post said. “Cool as a cucumber, Patsy waited with him until the fire got close enough to fight with a tractor and water pump.” Hill congratulated the pooch on a job well done in a video posted to Instagram. read more
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