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Wildfires Sweep Across Southeast Australia

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Bush and grass fires sweeping across Australia’s southeast destroyed homes, killed cattle and forced hundreds to flee Sunday as dry, hot winds fanned the flames. No deaths or serious injuries were reported as of Sunday afternoon. The fires, believed to have been sparked by lightning Saturday, were raging out of control across the state of Victoria’s rural southwest. Dry landscape “We’ve been watching the weather now for a while. We’ve been 30 or 40 days without rain, so we knew...

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