Red, orange skies in Australia's southeast regions due to smoke from raging bushfires

화마에 핏빛으로 물든 호주 하늘…"최악의 날"
Australia has been enduring some of the "worst" days in its history due to smoke from out of control bushfires that have turned skies red in the country's southeast.
For more on this and other news from around the world, let's turn to our Yoon Jung-min.
Jung-min, this is like a nightmare that never ends for the people in the areas affected...

Right, Conn-young, as you say.... fire authorities have declared that the weekend were the worst days yet in Australia.
Skies in the country's south-east turned red due to smoke from bushfires that have been raging for months.
Thousands of kilometers away in Auckland, the sky turned a bright orange,... while a blood-red sky was seen in Pambula, in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Firefighters told reporters that Saturday was one of their worst days ever on record.
A local fire service in New South Wales said nearly 1-hundred-50 fires are still active across the state,... and 64 of them are out of control.
Nearby Victoria state is suffering from a blaze which is bigger than New York's Manhattan.
Since September, the bushfires have killed 24 people, destroyed nearly 1-thousand-500 homes, and burned more than five-million hectares of land.
Victoria has declared a state of disaster and New South Wales had declared a state of emergency.
On Saturday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that the government will send 3-thousand reservists to fight the fires,... while committing some 14-million Australian dollars to lease fire-fighting aircraft.
Here's the Prime Minister.

"The fires are not over. The crisis is not over. There are months to go. And particularly in the southern states, and speaking to Premier Hodgman in Tasmania and in Victoria, their more difficult seasons usually come later, in January and in February. So there is still a long way to go."

Still, record-breaking temperatures in those regions are making efforts to tackle the fires even difficult.

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