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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding

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From: Elroy Jetson12/29/2019 8:38:51 PM
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More than 30,000 tourists in Australia who defied orders to leave area east of Melbourne amid raging bush-fires are trapped as roads are cut off, after locals warned staying would be 'suicide'

About 30,000 tourists as well as 45,000 locals were told on Sunday to leave Gippsland in what would be one of the biggest mass evacuations in Australia's history.
Emergencies chief Andrew Crisp told both residents and tens of thousands of holidaymakers in the East Gippsland 'If you're not out by 9am, you've got to stay where you are, because there's every chance the Princes Highway could be cut.'

Managers at holiday parks within the East Gippsland region, particularly at the Lakes Entrance, said most of their customers were opting to stay and had taken a relaxed approach.

Today Chief Andrew Crisp is now telling those who remained, 'it is now too dangerous for people to leave.'


Incident controller Ben Rankin from the Gippsland region likened the conditions to that of Black Saturday in 2009, when 180 people died.



Lakes Entrance under Evacuation Orders

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