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Australia orders mass evacuation of fire-ravaged towns before heatwave

  SYDNEY -- Thousands of tourists have been given less than 48 hours to evacuate fire-ravaged coastal communities as Australia braces for a heatwave Saturday expected to fan deadly bushfires. Catastrophic blazes ripped through swathes of the continent's south-east on New Year's Eve, killing at least eight people andstranding holidaymakers as seaside towns were ringed by flames. The New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service on Thursday morning declared a "tourist leave zone" stretching about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the popular holiday spot of Bateman's Bay along the usually picturesque south-east coast to neighboring Victoria state, where people are also being urg...

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