{"id":35926,"date":"2020-01-04T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T10:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35926"},"modified":"2020-01-04T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T10:29:04","slug":"how-to-help-australias-unpaid-firefighters-battle-the-bushfire-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35926","title":{"rendered":"How to help Australia&#8217;s unpaid firefighters battle the bushfire crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How to help Australia&#39;s unpaid firefighters battle the bushfire crisis\" src=\"https:\/\/mondrian.mashable.com\/lead-img-australia-bushfire-crisis-how-to-help.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia is burning.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen people have been confirmed dead since the country&#8217;s unprecedented bushfires began, with eight killed in the state of New South Wales since Monday. Over 11   million acres have been burned and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2020\/jan\/01\/australia-bushfires-new-south-wales-victoria-fires-news-latest-live-updates\">1, 400<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSWRFS\/status\/1212862984361562112\">homes<\/a> destroyed, with people in affected areas <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/australia-bushfires-evacuate-food-water-supermarket-queue\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">lining up for dwindling meat, water, and fuel<\/a> supplies. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds left stranded by the fires are being evacuated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-01-03\/navy-starts-bushfires-evacuations--in-mallacoota\/11838424\">sea and air<\/a>, while street closures impede those attempting to flee by ground. Cities are choking in smoke <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/sydney-smoke-fires-bad-air-quality\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">over   10 or 20 periods hazardous degrees<\/a>, the plumes so large they&#8217;re also <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/australia-bushfires-new-zealand-smoke\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">smothering New Zealand<\/a> 1,200 miles away. Experts belief almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/8-000-koalas-killed-by-devastating-australian-bushfires-experts-predict-w8hm3jcz8\">half a billion swine<\/a> are dead. <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/australia-bushfire-crisis-how-to-help\/\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/victoria\/\">Victoria<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bushfires\/\">Bushfires<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/how-to-help\/\">How To Help<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/new-south-wales\/\">New South Wales<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/australia-bushfire-crisis-how-to-help\/\">mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is burning. Nineteen people have been confirmed dead since the country&#8217;s unprecedented bushfires began, with eight killed in the state of New South Wales since Monday. Over 11 million acres have been burned and 1, 400homes destroyed, with people in affected areas lining up for dwindling meat, water, and fuel supplies. Hundreds left stranded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[648,20435,20535,16602,2816],"class_list":["post-35926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-bushfires","tag-how-to-help","tag-new-south-wales","tag-victoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020%252F01%252F03%252Ffd%252F68e26d10475340e68e2de9ee77282669.2d2df%252F1200x6301578133744.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}