Sydney disappears into smoke: In Australia, the polluted air 11 times more dangerous than the dangerous “”

Exhausted Australian firemen faced what the authorities of this country described as a deadly “combination of high temperatures with high winds.

Along Sydney, buildings were regularly evacuated as fire alarms were ringing.

Schools did not allow their children to go out during the lunch break and had to wear facial masks.

The images of the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and Bondi Beach and smoke were distributed throughout social networks, writes The Guardian, following Periscope.

Director of the State Environmental Health Organization Dr. Richard Broome, said the smoke in Sydney was the most polluted “airman he'd ever seen. ”

So far, six people have died, and about 700 houses have been destroyed. Over 2 million and 700 thousand hectares of land have been burned. /Periscope