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		</div><p>Australia continues to battle “catastrophic” fires as the severe heatwave and bushfire crisis continues.</p>
<p>A person in South Australia was confirmed as the latest casualty on Saturday and 15 homes destroyed by a fire 25 miles from state capital Adelaide.</p>
<p>It follows the deaths of two volunteer firefighters who were battling blazes in the country’s most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) on Thursday.</p>
<p>Around three million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land has burnt nationwide during a torrid bushfire season, with nine people killed and more than 800 homes destroyed.</p>
<p>Catastrophic fire conditions have been declared in NSW as temperatures were forecast to reach 47C (115F) in western Sydney on Saturday.</p>
<p>NSW Rural Fire Services Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said: <em>“Catastrophic fire conditions are as bad as it gets.</em></p>
<p><em>“Given we have a landscape with so much active fire burning, you have a recipe for very serious concern and a very dangerous day.”</em></p>
<p>In South Australia, authorities said 23 firefighters and several police have also suffered, as more than 40,000 hectares (98,842 acres) of land burnt.</p>
<p><em>“It is going to be a real scene of devastation, especially for those people in the Adelaide Hills who have been most affected,”</em> South Australia Premier Steven Marshall said.</p>
<p>“We know that in addition to the buildings and vehicles lost there are very significant losses in terms of livestock, animals, crops, vineyards.”</p>
<p>The annual Australian fire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer, started early after an unusually warm and dry winter.</p>
<p>The devastation has put pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has recieved criticism for going on a family holiday in Hawaii during the wildfires crisis.</p>
<p>He apologised on Friday for “any offence caused to any of the many Australians affected by the terrible bushfires by my taking leave with family at this time”.</p>
<p>Mr Morrison said he would cut short his holiday and was expected to return to Sydney on Saturday, where he is due to visit the Rural Fire Service headquarters.</p>
<p>Debate has reignited on whether Mr Morrison’s conservative government has taken enough action on climate change. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and liquefied natural gas.</p>
<p>Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency executive director, believed Australia had missed opportunities to mitigate the impact of coal.</p>
<p><em>“I find the Australian energy debate far too emotional, far too nervous and far too hot. It is hotter than the climate change itself,”</em> he told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.</p>
<p>Mr Morrison, who critics have deemed a climate change sceptic, conceded earlier this month that “climate change along with many other factors” contributed to the wildfires.</p>
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