and months later the Scott Morrison "over a billion animals dead" Merry Crisis continues ...
a #MerryCrisis tribute thread in pictures ....
New Years Eve 2019, locals seek refuge from bushfire at Malua Bay, just south of Batemans Bay on NSW South Coast Picture: Alex Coppel.
#TheNewYearsEveForThoseNotAtKirribilliFires
A large bushfire threatens houses at Harrington, near the Crowdy Bay National Park.
#TheHarringtonLooksLikeHellOnEarthFires
Lewis the #koala who rose to fame after being rescued from the Australian bushfires had to be euthanized due to his severe burn wounds.. 😢
#TheScottMorrisonDestroysBlinkyBillFires
Remembering Lewis rescued from the bushfires and had to be euthanized due to his severe burn wounds.. 😢
#TheScottMorrisonDestroysBlinkyBillFires
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Remembering Lewis the #koala who rose to fame after being rescued from the Australian bushfires had to be euthanized due to his severe burn wounds.. 😢
The Rescue of Lewis: Lewis the #koala rescued from bushfires had to be euthanized due to severe burn wounds.. 😢
#TheScottMorrisonDestroysBlinkyBillFires
19yr old Courtney lived in a granny flat at her parent’s house where she suffered a fatal asthma attack. Fires have ravaged Glen Innes since Sept2019
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Jan 2, 2020: An elderly woman died in Canberra after going into respiratory distress when exiting the plane to a tarmac filled with dense bushfire smoke.
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Died November 29th, 2019
RIP 🥀
Smoke from Australias bushfires has circumnavigated the globe...
#TheScottyIsTooStupidToListenToExpertsFires
Newlywed 28yr old Samuel McPaul, a volunteer firefighter, died battling Green Valley fires in southeast NSW. His wife is currently expecting their first child due early May 2020.
Samuel died when the truck he was in was blown over by extreme winds. RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said to label the death as tragic was an understatement... “He was well respected in his community and brigade”
theaustralian.com.au/nation/firefig…
Two #NSWRFS firefighters died 19 Dec 2019 battling bushfires as PM Morrison holidayed in Hawaii
Geoffrey Keaton, 32, and Andrew O’Dwyer, 36, died when a tree hit their tanker near Buxton, NSW.
#RIP Andrew O’Dwyer #NSWRFS
NSW Fire Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said firefighters everywhere were grieving the “huge loss” of the two young fathers who were caught in “the worst imaginable set of circumstances”.
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On 3rd of January 2020 father and son Dick and Clayton Lang were killed while helping others battle ferocious bushfires which devastated half of Kangaroo Island
#RIP Richard (Dick) Lang (pilot)
#RIP Clayton Lang (plastic surgeon)
Father and son died fighting fires on 3/1/2020 in catastrophic Kangaroo Island Fires
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Kangaroo Island had roughly 60,000 koalas.
Sadly about half perished in the fires. Koalas being found are dehydrated, starving, have burnt feet/noses and singed fur.
15/1/20 Kangaroo Island animal rescue teams find koalas 'totally shut down' in fire aftermath.
Pictured: an injured koala sitting nearby a furry friend who didn't survive the fires
15/1/20 Kangaroo Island animal rescue teams find koalas 'totally shut down' in fire aftermath.
abc.net.au/news/2020-01-1…
10th Dec 2019: "Scott Morrison rejects calls for more bushfire help saying volunteer firefighters 'want to be there'. The PM disagreed the Federal Govt could do more."
10/12/19
PM rejects calls for help
85 fires, 42 uncontrolled
2700 firefighters in the field
Air quality 11x hazardous level
Scott Morrison speaks in Sydney about Religious Discrimination Bill
Asked about concerns for volunteer firefighters PM said they “want to be there"
Dec 2019 reports surfaced of volunteer firefighters having to pay for fuel for fire trucks as well their own water/snacks to keep their energy up while fighting fires
we pay him a kings ransom
we give him a $50M harbour front mansion to live in
we spent $250M refurbing his personal plane
and he could not be more useless if he tried..
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if you don't follow @Triplejay58 you should ... and this is why ...
my god...without our firefighters we'd have no Koalas left!
Eternal thanks to all our Rural Fire Services
"Make the Climate Criminals Pay" protest
Saturday, 18th January, 2pm, State Library, VIC
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