CANBERRA (Reuters) - Bushfires burned across four Australian states on Tuesday, destroying houses and blackening an area larger than Luxembourg, with one major fire front stretching 250 km.
A fire on the southern island state of Tasmania struck the east coast town of Scamander, destroying 18 houses, although hard-pressed firefighters had little time to assess the damage as gusting winds opened fresh fronts.
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