Bushfires ravaging three states and it's still winter

Updated August 20 2018 - 1:30pm, first published 12:30am
Firefighters at Salt Ash on Sunday.
Firefighters at Salt Ash on Sunday.

THIS northern summer, bushfires have taken a terrible toll in Greece – where more than 90 people died as fires raged around Athens – and in the United States, where fewer people died but the fires were larger, burning out more than 1.7 million hectares.

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