Bushfires usually spare nothing in their path, leaving actor Russell Crowe thankful despite the devastation to his property in Nana Glen, after fires ripped through the area.
In a video posted on Twitter on Monday, the actor showed the extent of the damage to his property that reportedly covers about 400 hectares west of Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales central cost.
“Fires still burning, logs smoking everywhere you look,” he wrote. “Got halfway to where we were trying to get to, will try again in the morning when it’s cooler.”
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In the video, the Oscar winner said he encountered a number of fallen trees before he was forced to turn back.
“We’re up here trying to get up to this ridge road but we keep coming across things like that,” he said of the trees blocking the track.
“I’ve got a few boys behind me chopping through with a chainsaw, but I don’t think we brought enough chainsaws because we’ve got a long way to go to get to where we’re supposed to be.”
Crowe then turns the camera around to show the scorched bushland. “Look at this place, mate,” he said “Absolutely f***ing smashed.”
Crowe was painfully aware, though, that he had fared better than many other landowners across Australia in recent weeks.
“Lost a couple of buildings, but overall very lucky so far,” he said earlier in the week as he posted pictures from his property. “Deepest thanks to everyone on the ground. Some fires still burning and we are out of water. No livestock deaths to date.
“Horses ok. Let the chickens out and they are back, warm worms for breakfast!”
Lost a couple of buildings , but overall very lucky so far.
Chapel roof scorched.
Deepest thanks to everyone on the ground.
Some fires still burning and we are out of water.
No livestock deaths to date.
Horses ok.
Let the chickens out and they are back, warm worms for breakfast! pic.twitter.com/kaKJ351MXC— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) November 12, 2019
Devastating bushfires have torn through New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia over the past few weeks, with the death toll currently sitting at four.
Particularly dry conditions have been blamed for the worse-than-usual bushfires, with plenty of tinder-dry scrub providing fuel for the fires. Even thunderstorms in Sydney overnight failed to quench the flames, with the city still shrouded in a smoke haze on Tuesday.
Queensland is no longer considered to be in a state of emergency due to the bushfires but the Rural Fire Service in NSW reported multiple fires still burning on Tuesday
News.com.au reported that a new survey showed that 56 per cent Australians believed climate change had made the threat of bushfires worse, while 40 per cent believed the bushfires were unrelated to climate change. A further 3.5 per cent were unsure.
The polling done by UComms for the Climate Council and reported by news.com.au also found that 53.3 per cent of respondents wanted the government to do more to reduce the impact climate change has on bushfire risk. But the survey participants weren’t clear on what specifically should be done.
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