Heavy rains caused severe flooding in some areas, forcing evacuations in several towns and closing more than 50 schools on February 10. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology also issued several warnings of heavy rain, strong winds and flooding yesterday.
A car is swept away by floodwaters on a bridge over the Nepean River in the town of Cobbitty, Australia on February 10.
"However, heavy rains have helped extinguish more than 30 fires since February 7, which is the most positive news we have had in a while," the NSW Rural Fire Service shared on Twitter on February 10.
According to the NSW Rural Fire Service, heavy rain helped extinguish the Currowan fire on February 8. The uncontained fire had burned nearly 500 hectares in the past 74 days before being extinguished by heavy rain. Morris also said the heavy rain would help extinguish five other uncontained fires across the country.
Heavy rain brings joy to Australian people and many animals, but also causes serious flooding
The Australian bushfires, which have been raging since September last year, have so far killed 33 people and killed an estimated one billion native animals. The fires have destroyed around 2,500 homes and burned more than 11.7 million hectares of land. Australian authorities have been working to deal with the bushfire crisis with support from many countries including the US, Canada and New Zealand.
