(Bloomberg) -- Crews in South Australia are battling tostabilize wildfires and protect homes as hot weather forecast incoming days threatens to fan the flames.
Firefighters used planes from neighboring Victoria in an effortto gain control of the blaze that has destroyed or damaged 26homes. The Country Fire Service warned temperatures would reach 38degrees Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) on Jan. 7 before cooling, whilethe Insurance Council of Australia declared a catastrophe.
“We’ve got some dangerous weather approaching,” Premier JayWeatherill said in the state capital Adelaide. “The fact I’m nothere talking about deaths is a good thing, but we’ve got a bit of away to go before I think we can relax.”
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