SYDNEY -- Fire-ravaged Australia has launched a major operation to reach thousands of people stranded in seaside towns after deadly bushfires ripped through popular tourist areas on New Year's Eve. Navy ships and military aircraft were deployed alongside emergency crews Wednesday to provide humanitarian relief and assess the damage from one of the worst days yet in Australia's months-long bushfire crisis. Three people died in just 24 hours and five others remain missing after the country's southeast was devastated by out-of-control blazes, which destroyed dozens of homes and left some small towns in ruins. Information was trickling out of coastal communities where thousands ...
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