NSW and Queensland fires: no letup for exhausted communities as bushfires flare `all around us`
(The Guardian World News)

Residents like Ian Wheeler have spent days engulfed in smoke, as bushfires rip through more than 1 million hectares on Australia´s east coastIan Wheeler´s bloodshot eyes say more about the last four days in the so-small-it-barely-registers village of Killabakh, on the New South Wales mid-north coast, than he ever could.Along with his partner, April Walsh, Wheeler spent Wednesday the same way he´s spent every day since Sunday: engulfed in smoke. Continue reading...