PERTH, Australia: At least four people have died in bushfires raging out of control in parts of Western Australia, authorities said Wednesday, with a shocked local community lamenting a “day from hell”.
Several fast-moving blazes, sparked by lightning, were burning around Esperance some 740 kilometres (450 miles) southeast of Perth, with hundreds of firemen working round the clock in searing temperatures to put them out.
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