Death toll in Australian wildfires rises to 25

[lady_blackrose]

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init man gud kaayo diri esp.nowadays tapos daghan pud ayo sila kahoyan...so ing mag bush fires...halos hurot jud kasunog tanan.di madali ug patay ang kayo woi...sunog plus 48 degrees kainit.asa man ka anaworse man tingale is melbourne kay daghan pud namatay sa sunog.

[nirdle_phogi]

mura sad diay nig kaingin dah...

[7000 Color]

sobra pa na cya sa kaingin brod.. grabe na gyud kadaghan namatay abot na daw 150.. laliman bay mobuto daw ang trees mura daw ug bomb kakusog.. saun nalang ni..

[purecebuana]

i watched the news last night, grabe what a sad, sad news, I saw van burned down with 8 people on it including kids, some families lost thier kids too, what a pity! Police mentioned that they're still looking for the culprit, I thought this due to very hot weather..it's actually a massive arson..

HEALESVILLE, Australia (AFP) - - Australian firefighters battled Tuesday to save communities from wildfires that have already claimed 173 lives and left a trail of charred bodies in blackened homes and twisted car wrecks.

Police warned the toll, already the worst in the country's history, would continue to soar all week as investigators launched the country's largest ever arson investigation amid renewed flare ups.

"Road by road, house by house, we are working our way through," Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon said.

"We believe the toll will rise. It's a very sad thing for all of us in our community ... we hope towards the end of the weekend that the toll will start to settle in terms of numbers."

Nixon said a special task force involving 100 officers, dubbed Operation Phoenix, would investigate all aspects of the fires, including tracking down arsonists responsible for some of the blazes.

She said authorities were confident of arresting an arsonist blamed for starting and repeatedly reigniting fires in Gippsland, in Victoria's east, where almost 20 people have died.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described the arsonists as "mass murderers" and Victoria Police Minister Bob Cameron said authorities were determined to catch them.

"The sooner that they're taken out of the community the better for everybody's sake," he told Sky News. "We now know the devastation that they've caused."

But exhausted firefighters, most of them volunteers who have had little rest since the firestorms flared on Saturday, had more immediate concerns as they tried to save communities in the path of the flames.

Healesville, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) northeast of Melbourne, was the latest community threatened by the fires, which razed entire towns over the weekend.

[EL LOCO]

Hala noh ka grabe oi sa sitwasyon... suuuus wala na gyoy ka siguruhan ang atong mga palibot karon. ka "dako sa bitiiin" maypa ang Cebu wala nay ika sunog kay opao na ang atong bukidlllll saman Yam Agree?

[mobilefox]

grabeha ani oi..sunog sa australia unya sige sad baha ug landslide diri sa pilipinas..naunsa na man ni..

[lady_blackrose]

grabeha ani oi..sunog sa australia unya sige sad baha ug landslide diri sa pilipinas..naunsa na man ni..

more likely maabot pajud daw ug 200 ang dead.