The eruption on White Island earlier this month killed 19 people, including two people who were never found. It's thought the bodies of Winona Jane Langford, 17, and Hayden Bryan Marshall-Inman, 40, are in the water off the island. Police said their decision "follows extensive shoreline and substantial aerial searches". But despite those searches, "no further items of significance have been locate The eruption on White Island - a popular tourist destination - happened on 9 December. There were 47 people on the island, with 24 from Australia, nine from the US, five from New Zealand, four from Germany, two from China, tw
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A combination of temperatures above 40C, low humidity and strong winds have worsened the struggle for the almost 10,000 emergency personnel mobilised to deal with the bushfires in NSW.
ellers to delay their journeys as conditions threaten to intensify the bushfire crisis. Rising temperatures and strong winds have worsened fires in three states. Three blazes around Sydney are burning at emergency level, the second highest level of danger after catastrophic. "We are asking everybody not to travel on roads anywhere near the vicinity of an active fire unless you absolutely have to," Gladys Berejiklian, premier of NSW, said at a news conference. Image copyright EPA Image caption Close to 10,000 emergency personnel have been deployed in NSW A combination of temperatures above 40C, low humidity and strong winds have worsened the struggle for the almost 10,000 emergency personnel mobilised to deal with the bushfires ...