BBC Reporter Shaimaa Khalil shares her accounts of death and devastation in the wake of Australian bushfires. Khalil shares stories of destroyed wildlife sanctuaries, thick smoke in the cities and frustration over the lack of political action on climate change. With months of fire season still expected, Khalil says firefighters are looking to the sky and praying for rain.
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