12/10 Worst Day Yet For Sydney: Hospital Admissions Up 25%, Buildings Evacuated, Skyline Invisible
A shroud of smoke from Australia's bushfires has caused chaos in Sydney, bringing dangerous air quality, setting off smoke alarms and ruining visibility in its typically sparkling harbour.
The haze on Tuesday was described by many people as the thickest to blanket the city amid this year's fire crisis. It caused the cancellation of ferry and boat rides, while smoke permeating buildings forced evacuations citywide. Locals described the situation as "apocalyptic" and "insane".
Sydney has been covered by thick smoke from bushfires outside of the city
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is almost entirely obscured by the smoke
The smoke from inland fires has reached all the way to the coast and Bondi Beach
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The closest fires are about an hour's drive away from Greater Sydney, which has a population of five million people.
Tuesday was "the worst smoke day yet", according to locals on social media. In previous days, ash has fallen from the sky.
On Friday, Sydney's Balmoral Beach was covered in ash from a bushfire 100km away
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50722650
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has the power and influence to change the global narrative and lack of action on the climate crisis and they do nothing, while the world burns and the oceans rise.
We dems should be pounding this point home on national television, along with a ton of other issues. Where is the fucking marketing department for the Democratic Party? 
