{"id":1280,"date":"2019-11-14T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2019-11-14T08:16:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T02:31:19","slug":"australians-shelter-and-flee-as-firefighters-battle-150-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/australians-shelter-and-flee-as-firefighters-battle-150-bushfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians shelter and flee as firefighters battle 150 bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SYDNEY:<\/strong>&nbsp;Australian officials ordered people in several communities, including a major tourist destination, to evacuate immediately on Wednesday as firefighters struggled to contain more than 150 bushfires raging across the east coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While cooler weather overnight brought some relief for firefighters in New South Wales (NSW) state, attention shifted to its northern neighbour, Queensland, where hot, dry and windy 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