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Philippines struggles to evacuate reluctant villagers near volcano
By Karen Lema
MANILA (Reuters) – Nearly 40,000 people have been evacuated from near a Philippine volcano that could erupt violently at any moment, authorities said on Tuesday, but thousands more are refusing to leave or have already drifted back.
A cloud of ash and fountains of lava gushed for a third day from the crater of Taal, which lies in the middle of a lake about 70 km (45 miles) south of the center of the Philippines capital Manila.
Everyone living within 14 km (9 miles) of the volcano has been ordered to leave: potentially as many as 300,000 people, though disaster agency spokesman Mark Timbal said he believed the actual number who had been there was much lower.
Officially, 38,200 have now been evacuated, the agency said.
The Taal Volcano spews ash as it continues to errupt in Tagaytay City, Philippines, January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Local officials complained that many others were complicating the evacuation effort by staying put.
"I had to put Talisay under lockdown to prevent residents, who were already in the evacuation centers from returning," said Gerry Natanauan, mayor of one town that is well within the danger zone of the 311 meter (1,020-foot) volcano.
"They wanted to check their homes, possessions and animals, but they're not supposed to do that because it is very dangerous."
Although Taal is one of the world's smallest active volcanoes, it has a deadly history: an eruption in 1911 killed more than 1,300 people.
Several new fissures have opened, emitting plumes of steam, while dozens of tremors were felt as far as in Tagaytay city, a popular tourist destination 32 km (20 miles) away.
RISK OF DEVASTATION
If an eruption happened, nobody would be able to return to their homes because they would be devastated, said Renato Solidum, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvocs).
"The threat is really real," he told a media briefing.
However, many refused to heed the warnings.
In part of Balete town, which sits on the edge of the danger zone, Red Cross trucks were sent to bring out 1,000 residents, but they left with only 130 because people thought they were far enough from the volcano, local authorities said.
No casualties have been reported so far, and seismologists said there was a chance this eruption could subside, but the signs still point to an imminent explosion.
Visiting the area on Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte joked that the government could try a traditional way to calm the volcano down.
"You should go there and, you know, say a little prayer and offer something. Let's go by the primitive way of doing it just like what our forefathers would do," he was quoted as saying by the Inquirer.Net website.
Taal has erupted more than 30 times in the past five centuries, most recently in 1977. A 1754 eruption lasted for months. The Philippines lies on the "Ring of Fire", a belt of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean that is also prone to earthquakes.
In Manila, government offices reopened on Tuesday after being closed on Monday because of a fine layer of ash that drifted from the volcano, but schools remained shut and many people still wore face masks.
(Editing by Matthew Tostevin and Alex Richardson)
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By Martin Petty and Colin Packham
MERIMBULA, Australia/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian authorities urged another mass evacuation across the heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening several towns and communities.
Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews urged communities to be on alert ahead of the extreme conditions.
"If you receive instructions to leave, then you must leave," Andrews said in a televised briefing. "That is the only way to guarantee your safety."
Parts of Kangaroo Island, a wildlife-rich tourist spot off the southeast coast where Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday made a plea for foreign tourists not to be deterred by the fires, were again evacuated on Thursday.
"I urge everyone to heed warnings, follow advice, and to head to the east part of the island, which is deemed safe at this point," South Australia Fire Chief Mark Jones said in a separate briefing in Adelaide.
A third of the island has been destroyed.
Twenty-seven people have been killed this fire season, according to the federal government, as the monster fires have scorched through more than 10.3 million hectares (25.5 million acres) of land, an area the size of South Korea.
Thousands have been made homeless and thousands have had to evacuate repeatedly because of the volatility of the fires.
Residents of the coastal town of Mallacoota, where thousands of people were stranded on a beach for days until a military evacuation that only ended on Wednesday, were among those again advised to flee.
"If we evacuate, where do we go?" said Mark Tregellas, who spent New Year's Eve on a boat ramp as fire destroyed much of his town, and one of about 1,000 people who decided to stay.
"The electricity is slowly coming back but everyone is reliant on generators, and fuel for those is very limited," he told Reuters by telephone from his house.
"People have now run out of petrol so most in the town are now riding on bicycles."
Following are some highlights of what is happening in the bushfire crisis:
* A water bombing helicopter ditched in a dam on New South Wales South Coast on Thursday. The pilot was safe.
* Authorities have warned that the huge fires, spurred by high temperatures, wind and a three-year drought, will persist until there is substantial rainfall. The weather agency said there was no sign of that for months.
"It takes a huge amount of rain to put out bushfires of this intensity and of this scale. That's not forecast," South Australia Fire Chief Jones told reporters.
* Weather officials in South Australia issued a severe weather warning for some parts of the state's north.
* New South Wales fire officials warned of "extreme fire danger" in the state's alpine region.
* Victoria state extended its disaster alert level for another two days.
* The Australian Bureau of Meteorology reported only 6% of typical annual rainfall last year, while daytime temperatures were more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal: "Australia's getting warmer, the fire season's getting longer and the severity of the fire weather during that season is getting more frequent and severe."
* New South Wales announced new funding of A$1 billion ($686 million) to rebuild.
* Mining magnate Andrew Forrest pledged A$70 million to a recovery package, including a force of more than 1,000 volunteers from the mining and agriculture sectors to help with rebuilding.
* 1,870 homes have been destroyed on the badly hit New South Wales coast.
* Moody's Analytics said the cost of the fires could easily surpass that of deadly 2009 Black Saturday fires that destroyed 450,000 hectares of land, which cost an estimated A$4.4 billion.
* The prime minister has pledged A$2 billion ($1.4 billion) to a newly created National Bushfire Recovery Agency.
* About 100 firefighters from the United States and Canada are helping with another 140 expected in coming weeks.
* Malaysia has approved a plan to send 65 fire and rescue personnel to help. The deployment is awaiting Australian approval.
* Ecologists at the University of Sydney have estimated 1 billion animals have been killed or injured.
* The fires have emitted 400 megatonnes of carbon dioxide and produced harmful pollutants, the EU's Copernicus monitoring program said.
* Smoke has drifted across the Pacific, affecting cities in South America, and may have reached the Antarctic, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization said.
(Reporting by Colin Packham, Martin Petty, Sonali Paul, Paulina Duran, Swati Pandey and Praveen Menon; writing by Byron Kaye; Editing by Jane Wardell, Robert Birsel)
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Australia urges people to flee as fires set to surge at weekend
By Jill Gralow and Wayne Cole
BATEMANS BAY, Australia/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Authorities urged Australians on Friday to evacuate parts of the eastern states of Victoria and New South Wales to escape bushfires they fear are set to burn out of control this weekend.
In a harbinger of the searing conditions expected, a number of fires burnt out of control in South Australia as temperatures topped 40 degrees C (104 F) across much of the state and strong winds fanned flames.
Victoria declared a state of disaster across areas home to about 100,000 people, with authorities urging people to evacuate before a deterioration expected on Saturday.
"If they value their safety they must leave," Michael Grainger of the state's police emergency responders told reporters. "I'd suggest personal belongings are of very, very little value in these circumstances.
"These are dire circumstances, there is no doubt."
At the summer holiday peak, authorities have advised tens of thousands of holidaymakers and residents to leave national parks and tourist areas on the south coast of New South Wales, where a week-long state of emergency has been called.
A death confirmed on Friday takes the state's toll this week to eight. Two people have died in Victoria, and 28 are unaccounted for.
In Victoria, naval vessels Choules and Sycamore started evacuations of about a quarter of the 4,000 people stranded on a beach in the isolated town of Mallacoota.
With roads blocked, sea transport and some airlifts are the only way out of the stricken town, although heavy smoke prevented flights on Friday.
People in the fire-devastated New South Wales town of Cobargo angrily confronted Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a visit on Thursday, with one shouting that the leader should be "ashamed of himself" and had "left the country to burn".
Morrison's conservative government has long drawn criticism for not doing enough to battle climate change as a cause of Australia's savage drought and fires.
This season's fires have scorched more than 5.25 million hectares (13 million acres) of bushland, with 1,365 homes destroyed in New South Wales alone, including 449 this week on the south coast.
* Weather officials on Friday rated the danger from fire "very high" to "extreme" in most districts in South Australia, with a similar outlook for New South Wales and Victoria on Saturday.
* The head of the opposition Labor Party demanded a national response. "We haven't, in my lifetime, had people on beaches waiting to be evacuated in life jackets…like it's a peacetime version of something that we have seen during wartime," Anthony Albanese told a news conference.
* Since Monday, wildfires have killed ten people in New South Wales and Victoria, with 28 still missing in the latter.
* Police and emergency officials urged tourists to leave the south coast and Snowy Mountains of New South Wales because of dangerous fire conditions, and set a Friday deadline of 10 a.m. (2300 GMT Thursday) to leave Kosciuszko National Park.
* Thousands of people had already been evacuated from East Gippsland in Victoria, one of the largest such exercises since more than 35,000 people evacuated from the northern city of Darwin in the aftermath of cyclone Tracy in 1974.
* A contingent of 39 firefighters from North America arrived in Melbourne this week, taking to almost 100 the number of U.S. and Canadians helping to tackle the crisis.
* New Zealand will send 22 more firefighters to Australia next week, adding to 157 sent since October.
* Morrison blamed a three-year drought and lack of hazard reduction for the unprecedented extent and duration of the bushfires.
* Morrison said he was inclined not to proceed with plans for a Jan. 13 visit to India because of the fires, following which he was to have visited Japan.
* United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world was "not winning" the race to tackle global warming.
(Reporting by Jill Gralow and Wayne Cole; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Clarence Fernandez)
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Flood death toll rises to 26 in Jakarta, tens of thousands evacuated
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Stanley Widianto
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Thursday after flash floods and landslides killed up to 26 people amid some of the heaviest rain in more than 20 years, with more deluges forecast, authorities said.
The flooding, among the deadliest in years, caused chaos in parts of Southeast Asia's biggest city with train lines blocked and power outages in some areas. Swathes of Jakarta and nearby towns were inundated after heavy rain fell on Dec. 31 and into the early hours of New Year's Day.
Social affairs ministry data showed 26 people were killed in the flooding, up from the earlier toll of 21.
As of Thursday morning, over 62,000 people were evacuated in Jakarta alone, disaster mitigation agency spokesman Agus Wibowo said, although later in the day he told news channel Metro TV the number of evacuees were down to around 35,000 people.
Rainfall at an airport in East Jakarta measured at 377 millimeters (15 inches) early on Jan. 1, the highest daily reading during major floods since at least 1996, according to the Meteorology, Clilmatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
Umar Dani, 52, and his family were evacuated overnight from his home in East Jakarta on a rubber boat after water levels rose up to his neck.
"It has not flooded for so long here. We didn't have the chance to bring anything," he said.
"I have to live on the streets now."
President Joko Widodo told reporters evacuation and safety measures should be prioritized and called for more coordination between city administrations and the central government.
On his Twitter page, Widodo blamed delays in flood control infrastructure projects for the flooding. He said some projects have been delayed since 2017 due to land acquisition problems.
"EXTREME WEATHER" EXPECTED
Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan said authorities deployed hundreds of pumps to suck water from residential areas across the capital, which had allowed some people to return home.
"They want to return home immediately and start cleaning up their houses as soon as they are able to enter their houses as water recedes," Baswedan told reporters during a visit to a densely populated area in East Jakarta affected by the flood.
Residents waddled through murky water to see the governor while workers pumped water out of the area into a nearby river.
The mitigation agency said on its Twitter page that water levels have come down in a few affected areas, showing pictures of streets covered by mud and littered with debris.
Authorities however warned people to remain vigilant as "extreme weather" is expected to continue until Jan. 7.
Dwikorita Karnawati, head of the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), told reporters separately that heavy rainfall may continue until mid February.
Television footage on Thursday showed rescuers in the nearby city of Tangerang evacuating residents, guiding them across a strong current by holding on to a rope.
Jakarta and its surroundings are home to more than 30 million people. More than 50 people died in one of the capital's deadliest floods in 2007 and five years ago much of the centre of the city was inundated after canals overflowed.
The government announced last year that it is relocating the capital to East Kalimantan province on Borneo, though the planning ministry pledged that the government will invest $40 billion in modernizing Jakarta.
(Additional reporting by Jakarta bureau; Editing by Matthew Tostevin, Kim Coghill, William Maclean)
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Thousands flee fires in Australia, navy helps evacuate the stranded
By Jill Gralow and Sonali Paul
BATEMANS BAY, Australia/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of holiday makers fled seaside towns on Australia's east coast on Thursday as bushfires approached, and military ships and helicopters began rescuing thousands more trapped by the blazes.
Fuelled by searing temperatures and high winds, more than 200 fires are burning across the southeastern states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, threatening several towns.
The NSW state government declared a state of emergency, beginning on Friday, giving authorities the power to forcibly evacuate people and take control of services.
"It is hell on earth. It is the worst anybody's ever seen," Michelle Roberts said by telephone from the Croajingolong Cafe she owns in Mallacoota, a southeastern coastal town where 4,000 residents and visitors have been stranded on the beach since Monday night.
Roberts hoped to get her 18-year-old daughter onto a naval ship, which arrived off the town on Thursday, in order to escape the fires and thick smoke engulfing the town.
The HMAS Choules is expected to make two or three voyages over the coming days, state authorities said.
Elsewhere, long queues formed outside supermarkets and petrol stations as residents and tourists sought supplies to either bunker down or escape the fires, emptying shelves of staples like bread and milk.
More than 50,000 people were without power and some towns had no access to drinking water.
"Everyone's just on edge," said Shane Flanagan, a resident of Batemans Bay on the NSW coast.
Authorities urged a mass exodus from several towns on the southeast coast, an area popular with tourists during the summer holiday season, warning that extreme heat forecast for the weekend will further stoke the fires.
"The priority today is fighting fires and evacuating, getting people to safety," Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Sydney. "There are parts of both Victoria and New South Wales which have been completely devastated, with a loss of power and communications."
Eight people have been killed by wildfires in NSW and Victoria since Monday and 18 are missing, officials said on Thursday.
Temperatures are forecast to soar above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) along the south coast on Saturday, bringing the prospect of renewed firefronts to add to the around 200 current blazes.
"It is going to be a very dangerous day. It's going to be a very difficult day," NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said.
Following are highlights of what is happening across Australia:
* Naval officials said they would open registration forevacuation on Thursday afternoon, with the HMAS Choules able tocarry up to 1,000 people on the first trip. * "It's 16-17 hours to the closest boat port, then we've gotto come back," HMAS Choules Commander Scott Houlihan said onThursday afternoon. He said that leaving by boat was the onlyway out of the town. * Thousands of people had already been evacuated from theadjoining region of East Gippsland in Victoria, one of thelargest such operations in the country since the northern cityof Darwin evacuated over 35,000 people in the aftermath ofcyclone Tracy in 1974. * Five military helicopters were en route to the south coastto back up firefighters and bring in supplies like water anddiesel, the Australian Defence Force said. The aircraft willalso be used to evacuate injured, elderly and young people. * A contingent of 39 firefighters from North America landedin Melbourne, bringing the number of U.S. and Canadian expertswho have flown in to help deal with the crisis to almost 100. * Traffic on the main highway out of Batemans Bay on the NSWcoast was bumper-to-bumper after authorities called for the townto be evacuated. Residents of the town reported there was nofuel, power or phone service, while supermarket shelves had beenstripped bare of staples. * NSW's Kosciuszko National Park, home to the SnowyMountains, was closed and visitors were ordered to leave due toan extreme danger of fire. * Morrison urged those waiting for help and those stuck intraffic jams "to be patient … help will arrive." * Morrison, forced to defend his government's limited actionon climate change, blamed a three-year drought and lack ofhazard reduction for the unprecedented extent and duration ofthis year's bushfires. * Bushfires so far this season have razed more than 4million hectares (10 million acres) of bushland and destroyedmore than 1,000 homes, including 381 homes destroyed on thesouth coast this week.
(Reporting by Sonali Paul in Melbourne and Jill Gralow in Batemans Bay; Editing by Jane Wardell, Neil Fullick and Mike Collett-White)
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Floods in Indonesia's capital kill nine, force thousands to evacuate
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Flash floods inundated swathes of Indonesia's capital and nearby towns on the first day of the New Year after torrential rainfall overnight, killing at least nine people and forcing thousands of people to evacuate, authorities said on Wednesday.
"As of 4 pm today, there are 19,079 displaced residents who have been evacuated at temporary shelters throughout Jakarta," city governor Anies Baswedan told a news conference.
"The rain in Jakarta has stopped, now we are waiting for the water to recede".
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said at least 9 people had died in flash floods and landslides triggered by the rain in Jakarta and nearby towns.
Most of the deaths were due to hypothermia, though one was a teenager who was electrocuted by a power line, disaster mitigation agency spokesman Agus Wibobo said.
Television footage showed cars almost completely submerged and people wading through meters murky brown water in some neighborhoods of the capital.
Water levels in East and South Jakarta as well as in the satellite cities of Tangerang and Bekasi in West Java province started to quickly rise from 3 a.m. local time (2000 GMT), according to the disaster mitigation agency.
Indonesia's state electricity utility said it had switched off the electricity in hundreds of districts in Jakarta, which is home to 30 million people.
The floods also caused the temporary closure of the runway at Jakarta's domestic Halim airport, with flights redirected to the capital' bigger Soekarno airport.
City authorities have in the last few years sought to improve low-lying Jakarta's vulnerability to flooding during the rainy season.
More than 50 people died in one of the capital's deadliest floods in 2007 and five years ago much of the center of the city was inundated after canals overflowed.
Jakarta resident Daniel, whose neighborhood had been waterlogged, told reporters of his disappointment with the city government's efforts to mitigate the floods, which happen yearly during the rainy season.
"I only have one hope, which is to ask the current governor to fix this because it impact all the people," he pleaded.
"Take the right action please, look at what is happening now, bring the situation back to normal."
(Reporting by Jakarta bureau; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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Australian authorities scramble to reach victims of deadly fires as death toll rises
By Colin Packham
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A third person was confirmed dead on Wednesday in devastating bushfires that engulfed Australia's southeast coast this week and a fourth was missing and feared dead, as navy ships rushed to provide supplies and assist with evacuations.
At least 15 people are now believed to have died, while scores of people remain missing after weeks of fires that have ripped through Australia's east coast, much of which is tinder-dry after three years of drought.
Fanned by soaring temperatures, columns of fire and smoke blackened entire towns on Monday and Tuesday, forcing thousands of residents and holidaymakers to seek shelter on beaches. Many stood in shallow water to escape the flames.
Bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres) and new blazes are sparked almost daily by extremely hot and windy conditions and, most recently, dry lightning strikes created by the fires themselves.
Cooler conditions on Wednesday gave the country a moment to count the cost of the fires, although there were still more than 100 blazes in New South Wales (NSW) state alone and thousands of firefighters on the ground.
The body of a man was found in a burnt car early on Wednesday on the south coast of New South Wales after emergency workers began reaching the most damaged areas, and police said the death toll will rise.
"Sadly, we can report today that police have confirmed a further three deaths as a result of the fires on the South Coast," NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys told reporters in Sydney.
"Police are also at Lake Conjola now, where a house has been destroyed by fire and the occupant of that home is still unaccounted for."
NSW police did not identify the missing man but said he was 72 years old and authorities have been unable to reach his home.
Police said early assessments have found nearly 200 homes have been destroyed, though they cautioned it was an early estimate.
In Victoria state, four people remain missing, state Premier Daniel Andrews said, after a massive blaze ripped through Gippsland – a rural region about 500 km (310 miles) east of Melbourne.
About 4,000 people in the town of Mallacoota in Victoria headed to the waterfront after the main road was cut off.
Mark Tregellas, a resident of Mallacoota who spent the night on a boat ramp, said only a late shift in the wind direction sparred lives.
"The fire just continued to grow and then the black started to descend. I couldn't see the hand in front in my face, and it then it started to glow red and we knew the fire was coming," Tregellas told Reuters.
"Ash started to fall from the air and then the embers started to come down. At that point, people started to bring their kids and families into the water. Thankfully, the wind changed and the fire moved away."
Thousands of Australians remain cut off as fires force the closure of major roads, leaving many struggling to secure supplies.
In Milton, a small town on the on the NSW south coast, locals queued for hours for the few remaining items left of shelves on supermarkets.
Emma Schirmer, who evacuated from her house in Batemans Bay with her three-month child on Tuesday, said the local shop was limiting sales to six items per customer, while a power outage meant shoppers could pay only with cash.
As shops run low and firefighters struggle with exhaustion, Australia's military, including Black Hawk helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and naval vessels were being deployed.
Victoria's emergency management commissioner, Andrew Crisp, said the 176-metre-long HMAS Choules may be used to evacuate many of those stranded in Mallacoota, though with a capacity of 1,000 it will be insufficient alone.
HMAS Choules is due to arrive on Thursday.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said authorities were working to restore communications with areas cut off by the fires, though she warned conditions will deteriorate again over the weekend.
"Weather conditions on Saturday will be as bad as they were" on Tuesday, Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney.
Meanwhile, Australia's capital Canberra was blanketed in thick smoke, reaching about 20 times hazardous levels, prompting health warnings.
The smoke has also drifted to New Zealand where it has turned the daytime sky orange across the South Island.
(Reporting by Colin Packham in Sydney; Editing by Cynthia Osterman, Kim Coghill and Louise Heavens)
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Thousands trapped on Australian beaches by dangerous bushfires
By Sonali Paul and Swati Pandey
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands swarmed to beaches on Australia's east coast on Tuesday to escape fierce wildfires bearing down on several seaside towns, as the government readied naval vessels and military helicopters to aid firefighting and evacuations.
Government officials called for Australian military support and assistance from U.S. and Canadian fire crews as authorities confirmed two people had died overnight, taking to 11 the total deaths in wildfires since the beginning of October.
The huge bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres), with new blazes sparked into life almost daily by extremely hot and windy conditions in bushland left tinder dry after a three-year drought.
Fueled by searing temperatures and high winds, more than 200 fires are now burning across the southeastern states of New South Wales and Victoria, threatening several towns and snapping their power, mobile and internet links.
"This is absolutely one of the worst fire seasons we've seen," Shane Fitzsimmons, commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service, told a briefing in Sydney.
"It's going to be a very long, difficult dangerous night still ahead. It's going to be another difficult day again tomorrow."
Authorities said the main firefront was moving up the coast and warned those in its path to seek shelter close to the beach.
About 4,000 people in the town of Mallacoota in Victoria headed to the waterfront after the main road was cut off. Those who could not make it there scrambled for shelter in a gymnasium and other public buildings, as emergency sirens wailed.
Some of those trapped in the town posted images of blood-red, smoke-filled skies on social media. One beachfront photograph showed people lying shoulder-to-shoulder on the sand, some wearing gas masks.
It looked "a lot like Armageddon," said David Jeffrey, the owner of the Wave Oasis guesthouse, adding, "It's terrifying."
Fisherman Steve Casement said he had lost his house in Mallacoota to the fires.
"We are stuck here now," he told Reuters by telephone. "Everyone is pretty shocked at the moment, most of my mates are in the same position.
"Right now, I am on a trailer watching the town burn down, listening to gas bottles explode at some poor bugger's home and seeing smoke all around me."
Authorities said that by late afternoon the worst danger had passed.
DARKNESS IN THE AFTERNOON
Several hundreds of kilometers north, the Jervis Bay tourist spot famed for having the whitest sand beach in the world, was shrouded in darkness in the afternoon as massive fires burned, with conditions expected to worsen.
The blazes were also generating their own weather patterns, with erratic winds, dry lightning and a significantly faster spread in different direction, fire authorities said.
Ellie Morello took refuge at a beachside motel with her mother, some neighbors, friends at pets as fires approached Batemans Bay, a town on the New South Wales coast.
"My throat's hurting from the smoke," she told Reuters by telephone. "Burned leaves and sparks were falling on me like rain."
Another small fire was closing in behind her as she spoke, she added.
"Helicopters are flying right overhead and dropping ocean waters a couple of hundred meters from where I am. But we have nowhere to go so we are still here."
Morello and others said they had run out of food and were unable to replenish supplies as shops had shut.
James Findlay, a Melbourne-based broadcaster, said his parents' home in the town was gutted after palm trees on the lawn caught fire. The couple were vacationing in New Zealand.
"There were a lot of family heirlooms in there," he told Reuters. "A lot of priceless memories."
The fires have been spread across four states, with fronts stretching hundreds of kilometers in some cases, affecting many towns and rural areas.
The two people who died overnight were believed to have been a father and son protecting their property near the town of Cobargo in New South Wales, police said, with a third missing, feared dead, while in Victoria, four more were unaccounted for.
Bushfires burned on the outskirts of Sydney, cloaking the harbor city in smoke ahead of a fireworks display planned for New Year's Eve.
Authorities said the fireworks would go ahead, despite some public calls for cancellation in solidarity with fire-hit areas in the state.
"Many of us have mixed feelings about this evening, but the important thing we take out of this is that we're a resilient state," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters.
(Reporting by Sonali Paul in Melbourne; additional reporting by Jonathan Barrett and Paulina Duran in Sydney; Writing by Jane Wardell; Editing by Gerry Doyle and Clarence Fernandez)
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Australia's 'columns of fire' force mass evacuation, claim ninth life
By Swati Pandey and Sonali Paul
SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A volunteer firefighter was killed battling Australian bushfires on Monday as "columns" of flames generating their own dangerous weather systems bore down on a tourist region, prompting the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
The firefighter, and two others who suffered burns, were working on a fire about 70 km (45 miles) east of Albury in New South Wales (NSW) when, it is believed, their truck rolled after being hit by strong winds, authorities said on Twitter.
The incident took the death toll from the country's raging bushfires to nine and added pressure on authorities to reconsider New Year celebration plans for the city of Sydney.
Around 100 fires are burning across Australia, with as many as 14 "emergency" warnings in place for Victoria while fires are also threatening homes and infrastructure in South Australia and Tasmania.
Tens of thousands were evacuated as "columns of fire" fuelled by extreme heat and high winds bore down on the popular tourist region of East Gippsland in Victoria state in Australia's southeast.
Wildfires that have plagued the country's eastern coast for weeks flared again to danger levels in East Gippsland, an area encompassing two national parks, lakes and coastal plains that is half the size of Belgium.
By late afternoon, officials warned holiday makers to stay off the roads because of thick smoke and unpredictable, fast-moving fires, adding that it was now too late for people who had not left the region to do so.
"Leaving now would be deadly," authorities said.
The state's Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp said "columns of fire" were punching into the atmosphere and generating their own erratic weather systems.
"There's lightning coming out of these columns," Crisp told reporters. "It is unpredictable, it's dangerous out there."
With some firefronts stretching more than 1,000 km (620 miles) and temperatures reaching as high as 43 Celsius (109 Fahrenheit), Crisp said the danger will remain high into the evening.
Bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres) – an area the size of Japan — across Australia in recent weeks.
At the Wallagaraugh River Retreat in Mallacoota, a coastal town in East Gippsland, owner Lynette Sykes told Reuters her property was evacuated this morning.
"We were not going to take any risks with people's lives," Sykes said.
A video posted on social media site Facebook showed tourist Nicholas Costanzo escaping from the Victorian bushfire on a narrow two-way road dotted with fire trucks as thick smoke blurred vision. "Please pray for us," he said.
Authorities across Australia's south, including fire-ravaged South Australia, warned that dry lightning could spark further flare-ups overnight even as the temperature is forecast to cool.
Dry lightning occurs when a storm forms from high temperatures, but the much-needed rain evaporates before reaching the ground.
Large parts of Australia have suffered through several years of drought that has created tinder dry conditions, leaving bushland ready to ignite.
The heat wave in Australia's south even pushed up the mercury in Tasmania, the country's closest point to Antarctica, to 40.8 Celsius (105.4 Fahrenheit). That was the hottest ever December temperature recorded in the state capital city of Hobart, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
In New South Wales state, temperatures are forecast to spike on New Year's Eve, when hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather around the harbour in Sydney to watch the city's world-famous firework celebrations.
Authorities said they are planning to push ahead with the celebrations, despite some calls for the fireworks to be cancelled.
"If regional areas have had fireworks banned, then let's not have two classes of citizens," tweeted New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro, who represents a rural district affected by drought and fire.
An online petition calling for the Sydney spectacle to be cancelled and the money given to farmers and firefighters had attracted close to 275,000 signatures by late Monday.
(Reporting by Sonali Paul and Swati Pandey; Additional reporting by Wayne Cole and Paulina Duran; Writing by Jonathan Barrett; Editing by Richard Pullin, Jane Wardell, William Maclean)
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New evacuation order for Texas city hit by explosion, chemical fire
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Authorities have issued a second evacuation order in a week for residents of a city in the U.S. state of Texas after an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant.
Officials issued the order late on Wednesday in Port Neches after air monitors detected elevated levels of a cancer-causing petrochemical produced at the TPC Group facility that was struck by the blaze and blast.
The fire at the 218-acre (88-hectare) plant, which was put out on Tuesday after burning for six days, had earlier prompted the evacuation of about 60,000 residents from several cities in southeast Texas.
Air monitors on Wednesday posted elevated levels of butadiene, a cancer-causing chemical. The plant makes flammable chemicals used in the production of synthetic rubber and a gasoline additive.
Schools were closed for the rest of the week, officials said. Schools in Port Neches and nearby Groves had reopened on Tuesday.
TPC Group did not immediately respond to requests for information on the butadiene emissions.
The latest evacuation, issued by the City of Port Neches and Jefferson County Judge Branick, replaced a shelter-in-place ordered earlier on Wednesday.
Elevated butadiene levels had been measured in some parts of the city and could cause dizziness, nausea, headaches, irritated eyes and throat, the statement said. They did not pose a serious health risk, or a flammability or explosion risk, it said.
A local temporary shelter for residents was re-established, the statement added.
TPC Group's Port Neches plant suffered a fire after an explosion on Nov. 27 that injured three workers. Officials have not determined the cause of the explosion and fire, which began in a butadiene processing unit.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba and Sumita Layek; Editing by Richard Pullin and Timothy Heritage)
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Robinett
https://amazon.com/dp/0738740675?tag=intama-20
PARANORMAL/NON-FICTION: "Forevermore" is an autobiography of an ordinary life that meshes with the extraordinary. Since she was a girl, Ms. Kristy Robinett has been gifted with abilities that allow her to reach into the beyond. She writes the introduction to her autobiography with some trepidation, she says, at revealing her relationship with a figure of historical note. At thirteen, Edgar Allan Poe appears to her and remains with her as a primary spirit guide during her life.
"Forevermore" describes the journey and revelations for both Kristy and for Poe. She follows his lead as he directs her to seek out the truth of his life and her past life, which are intertwined. Due to the subject matter of ghosts, spirits and those not at rest, a reader's skin may crawl and the blood may chill. Ms. Robinett jumps to the high points of her experiences over several years which leaves a disjointed feel at times. On a few occasions, a reader may get lost when they are suddenly shifted into a regression with Kristy. It is intriguing, however, to have a front row seat in a medium's journey with a character like Poe, who fascinated many during his life and continues to share after his death. The bread crumbs laid by Poe's spirit are not tied up in a neat bundle but they shed light on the events of his life and controversial, if not mysterious, demise.
It's a read that leaves unanswered questions, probabilities to consider, theories to ponder and a unique opportunity to view Ms. Robinett's startling, sometimes dangerous life - all from the safety of one's armchair.

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using System;
using System.Linq;
using ExactOnline.Client.Models;
using ExactOnline.Client.Sdk.Controllers;
using ExactOnline.Client.Sdk.TestContext;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace ExactOnline.Client.Sdk.UserAcceptanceTests.UserLevel
{
	[TestClass]
	public class AlterStateAccountObjectDirectly
	{
		[TestMethod]
		[TestCategory("User Acceptance Tests")]
		public void AlterStateAccountObjectDirectly_Succeeds()
		{
			var toc = new TestObjectsCreator();
			var client = new ExactOnlineClient(toc.EndPoint, toc.GetOAuthAuthenticationToken);
			// Get account to update
			var accounts = client.For<Account>().Top(1).Select("ID").Get();
			var account = accounts.First();

			// Change name of account & update
			account.Name = "Test Name UAT2";
			if (!client.For<Account>().Update(account))
			{
				throw new Exception("Account is not updated");
			}
			else
			{
				// Change account back for test purposes
				account.Name = "Test Name UAT";
				if (!client.For<Account>().Update(account))
				{
					throw new Exception("Changing account entity back for tests failed. Possibly these tests won't work anymore");
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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The Information Officer
NarratorPeter Joyce
Crime & ThrillersCrime
From the No. 1 bestseller and author of Richard & Judy pick The Savage Garden: an atmospheric world war two crime thriller for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld
"You want to know who I am? I'm the last living soul you'll ever set eyes on"
Summer, 1942. For the people of Malta, suffering daily bombing raids, the British are the last line of defence against the Nazis. And it is Max Chadwick's job as the information officer to ensure the news the islanders receive maintains morale.
So when Max is given proof suggesting a British officer is murdering local women, he knows the consequences of discovery are dire. With the violence on the war-ravaged island escalating daily, he embarks on a private investigation, hidden from the eyes of superiors, friends and the woman he loves.
But Max finds himself torn between patriotic duty and personal honour in his efforts to track down the killer… an elusive figure always one step ahead of his hunter.


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Melbourne gets another five years
THE City of Melbourne has signed a five-year extension to its deal to run the Australian Grand Prix in Albert Park. The race will now be held at the controversial venue until the end of 2006. The city originally signed a contract to run the race between 1997 and 2001 but this was extended to a six-year deal after Adelaide agreed to give up the race a year ahead of schedule in return for Melbourne agreeing to buy all of its Grand Prix equipment, notably the grandstands and the barriers. As a result the race moved to Melbourne in 1996.
Although there is still a tiny group of protesters who oppose the event, the Grand Prix in Melbourne has been a big success, according to the state government of Victoria, bringing Melbourne international exposure and economic benefits in the form of tax receipts and job-creation.
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BERGER HEADS BMW MOTORSPORT
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More than 56 million Americans now live in multigenerational homes, and at the center are Gen X'ers, caring for family members that range from Baby Boomers, Millennials and even Gen Z (born mid-1990s). One financial hurdle most X'ers face is providing for their childrens' college costs, which 50% of Gen X'ers say is a major financial goal. Having to usually support multiple family members — while dealing with a shifting job market — leaves many members of Generation X to think heavily of their future well being.
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I swear years ago I had marked a disc containing John Barbirolli conducting Shostakovich Symphony no.4 as my preferred recording of that work. My cd's are in boxes and disorder, and online i can't find any indication that it actually exists, so then is it my imagination?
Re: Shost Symph4 by Barbirolli?
Sure it wasn't the fifth?
I know he did the 5th, of that there's every indication.
I just know there's one particular recording that approaches the last climax with an irrationally aggressive tempo (although in context to this symphony, there's no such concept as rational, it can be said). I cannot remember who it was, if it wasn't barbirolli. Any chance you'd know of a place where a complete catalog of recordings is kept online? I was not able to find one.
What you need you will find at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_%28Shostakovich%29 . I'm not sure if it is comprehensive and there are errors, not least in that the first eight are shown in media that did not exist at the time(!) and the Ormandy recording date is, I think, about four years later than it should be.
I'm quite sure that Barbirolli never even conducted the work, let alone recorded it; http://www.barbirollisociety.co.uk/cd-listings certainly lists no recordings of Shoatakovich by him. Malcolm Sargent was down to conduct the Fourth in London in 1967 but had to pull out due to illness and his place was taken by Charles Groves in a rather shoddy performance not at all characteristic of the usually more than reliable Groves that probably resulted from necessarily hasty preparation of the work which was, of course, not well known in England at the time (I attended this, by the way - it was the first time that I'd heard it live).
The Fourth Symphony has the most troubled history in Shostakovich's output, not only because it had to wait a quarter century for its première but also because its full score apparently disappeared during WWII so, had the orchestral parts used in the 1936 rehearsals not survived, we would never have known this work, which would have been a tragedy, especially as it is not only his largest symphony with the largest orchestra that he ever used but also arguably his finest achievement of all; he was delighted with it at the first performance in 1961 and felt that it was still one of his best works (and a pity it was that his most recently completed symphony at that time - his Twelfth - was probably his worst and a rare aberration in his copious calatogue of works).
I'm quite sure that Barbirolli never even conducted the work, let alone recorded it; http://www.barbirollisociety.co.uk/cd-listings certainly lists no recordings of Shoatakovich by him.
Indeed, but it omits mention of the Shostakovich 5th Symphony as well, so is perhaps not as comprehensive as it ought be.
Time to open some boxes, i suppose. I appreciate the input on this. The 4th always left the deepest mark on me, good to see i'm in good company. Many years ago I spent time familiarizing myself with the rest of his Symphonies and even audited a graduate course on them at my university.
I'm intruiged by the recording work done by the 2 pianists on Chandos who recorded and performed the whole thing (you can find one such live performance on youtube, if you have not seen i recommend it, for what it is, it's absolutely incredible).
Malcolm Sargent was down to conduct the Fourth in London in 1967 but had to pull out due to illness and his place was taken by Charles Groves in a rather shoddy performance not at all characteristic of the usually more than reliable Groves that probably resulted from necessarily hasty preparation of the work which was, of course, not well known in England at the time (I attended this, by the way - it was the first time that I'd heard it live).
That's extremely interesting. I find the wiki information regarding structure to be good reading, I'll be looking at it later, thanks.
I did some looking around. In the distant past it appears I have developed some attachment to a particular recording, for some reason it was the Andre Previn recording of the 4 (so my confusing him with Barbirolli is extremely embarrassing). I did pull out my digital recordings of Shostakovich and compared them for the purpose of getting at what i considered a moving approach to the finale ending and realized that the Simon Rattle and Neeme Jarvi ones were the closest to what i had imagined or perhaps interpreted in the past. I quite likely spent time listening to them at the time, probably some 10 + years ago. So it has been a while.
But didn't he only perform that symphony and not actually record it?
It's a live rather than studio recording, but it's out on CD.


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Accueil » Love in different languages
Love in different languages
Love can be expressed in different languages through different cultures and nations.
An individual might say it in a different way that the other but the meaning is the always similar.
If love has no bounds, there's no way a linguistic barrier could keep us from agreeing on what it means. Love in other languages is, in theory, still love.
That isn't totally true, as it turns out. While love's emotions are likely universal, how we communicate about them, the language we use to describe them. And the cultural norms through which we filter them are not.
Emotions are both universal and highly reliant on our cultural upbringing in terms of how they are expressed.
Te quiero (a more casual, friendly version of "I love you") and te amo (a more binding form of "I love you" that's usually reserved for passionate, romantic love) are two affectionate phrases in the Spanish language.
In France, love is expressed with romantic words and a very direct way of communicating. Even physically, love is expressed with a lot of intensity with the so called "French kiss" very popular and influential in the world.
In Italy, love is expressive, with gestures, with words and physical touch. Love is like a plate of pasta: delicate, refined, simple but with a release of emotions.
It's surprising how much you can learn about a culture just by looking at how people communicate. There's always an expression or a word that doesn't exist in other languages or appears unique based on a culture's collective psyche. It's incredible to consider that despite the passage of time, wars, and our existence as human beings, one thing has remained constant: our ability to communicate through language and our ability to love.
Guerda International, the luxury dating agency operates in different countries. The goal is to expand love using its different languages to everyone. Guerda De Haan, the love therapist created the agency in order to couple all the lonely souls looking to seek love and happiness locally and internationally. She tailors a personalized follow up whenever and wherever you are. The community is prestigious and international. The heart hunters work in France and across Europe to find the perfect match that meets the requirements and criteria.


We have been on a mission this summer to hit up every local playground, fun space and "Staycation" spot in our area. One of our staple staycation spots is CamelBeach in Tannersville, PA. Camelbeach is the water park section of CamelBack Ski Mountain in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains and it's our favorite place for water play.
The brochure says its best: "Bigger Than You Think." From the outside, you may think that this place is pretty small, and from the ticket price, you start to think that it can't be as large as the more popular water parks. Wrong. Camelbeach has over 37 rides, slides and attractions, and we tackled them all. On our adventure, we had my Mom, Dad, 16 year old sister, and a friend of the family with her twin nieces. Our gang was determined to conquer it all.
We started the day at the Camel Cove, where the splash bucket and the Blue Nile lazy river were located. Duchess had a blast there and dragged my Husband all over the cove, while I decided to get in a nap and a tan. My sister had a self-challenge to get on every slide possible, and my son was a intent to tag along. They also grabbed the twins later in the day, and they took on the Checkered Flag Challenge, The Sandstorm and the Titan. My Dad joined us at the park later in the day and took my sister surfing at the Flow Rider.
Lastly, we all migrated to the Kahuna Lagoon wave pool, where my daredevil daughter tried to swim for the first time. She's such a maniac, that after being in the wave pool for a mere 5 minutes, she asked repeatedly to take off her life jacket. Uh, no kid. You're not even 2 yet. The lifeguards were adamant about the kids wearing life jackets in the pools and we're so grateful that they were attentive. Camelbeach is not only beautiful but intent on safety!
To save some dough we took advantage of their "Four 4 Fun" deal: buy 4 tickets for only 99.99. Since the Duchess was under 2, she got in free. My Dad had to pay for his ticket since he met up with us later, but he used their military discount and ended up only paying 25.99. To save even more, we rented one of their picnic tables in the designated picnic area for only 10 bucks. I made subs at home, bought in bags of chips, fruit snacks, and frozen water bottles. As a treat for the end of the day, we did grab a few funnel cakes from one of their restaurants.
Did we get to conquer it all? No way. There were an ample amount of attractions and even with our big crew, we left a few behind and called it a day. But we all agreed; we'd be back again this summer. And next time? We're getting a cabana!


Discussion in 'First Time Marijuana Growers' started by parlevoo, Nov 11, 2018.
So... I popped 3 seeds with the water cup/paper towel method.
Planted them in moist jiffy pellets.
1 sprouted, and growing great.
2 have not sprouted after 10 days.
I gently removed the top soil above the non sprouted seeds.
The second seed had fully sprouted its water leaves, and had a first set of true leaves starting to sprout, but had no tap root at all, which is why it hadn't pushed to the surface... no crawlies in this one.
Any ideas what is going on here. Seems really strange???
2nd one im guess dampening off. i had a seedling like that grew it's cotyledon leaves but didn't grow for a week. tried to brush the soil off check what was going on no tap root. it HAD a tap root when i put it in. thus i assume dampening off due to over watering.
So these were all planted in jiffy pellets. Nothing more. I have given them 3 sprays each every 2 days.
i am guessing you got fungus gnats? try looking up fungus gnat larvae and see if that is what you got.
Try just planting them - it eliminates extra handling. Put in rapid rooters - and put in drawer - no heat mats and no humidity domes.
10 out of 10 sprouted within four days. I rarely have one not pop.
Were they definitely maggots and not springtails ?


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Österlund is a Swedish surname, written abroad also as Osterlund. Notable people with the surname include:

John Österlund (1875–1953), Swedish artist and curator
Rod Osterlund, American NASCAR team owner
Tommy Österlund (born 1966), Swedish rower

Swedish-language surnames

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Lighthouses of Japan: Northern Wakayama Prefecture
This page lists lighthouses of the northern part of the Japanese prefecture of Wakayama, which faces southwest on the Pacific Ocean southeast of Ōsaka. The prefecture includes a large part of the scenic Kii Peninsula (Kii-hanto), which projects southward into the Pacific and is the southernmost coast of Honshū. The lighthouses of this page are on the west side of the peninsula, from Tanabe north to the border of Ōsaka Prefecture.
In Japanese, the word for a lighthouse is tōdai or toudai (灯台). The words saki and misaki are for capes and headlands, shima (also spelled sima or jima) is an island, wan is a bay, and kō is a harbor. Lighthouses in Japan are operated and maintained by the Japanese Coast Guard's Maritime Safety Agency. On Honshū there is usually at least one Coast Guard Section Office in each prefecture; Wakayama has two, at Tanabe and at Wakayama City. The Tanabe office maintains lighthouses near that city, and the Wakayama office maintains the lighthouses from Hidaka northward.
ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. JCG numbers are the Japanese Coast Guard's light list numbers. Admiralty numbers are from volume M of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 112.
General Sources
Lighthouses in Japan - Wakayama
A comprehensive site, although almost entirely in Japanese.
Lighthouse-Japan.com - Wakayama
This site has excellent photos for many lighthouses in Wakayama.
Form of a Lighthouse - Wakayama
Another site with many photos of Japanese lighthouses, cited below as FOAL.
Lighthouses (Wakayama Prefecture)
Another comprehensive site for lighthouse photos.
Kiso's Lighthouses
This site has many excellent photos of Japanese lighthouses. Kiso's page for Honshū-Pacific Ocean has many of the photos referenced on this page.
Misty's Japanese Lighthouse Tour - Wakayama
Photos and a few notes for lighthouses in all parts of the country.
Online List of Lights - Japan
Photos posted by Alexander Trabas.
Lighthouses in Wakayama Prefecture
Photos by various photographers available from Wikimedia.
Richard Henry Brunton
Wikipedia article on the Scottish engineer who built most of Japan's oldest lighthouses, including the surviving Sugashima Light and the first lighthouse at Anori Saki.
Japan: Modern Lighthouses
Historic postcard views posted by Michel Forand.
Saika Saki Light, Wakayama, December 2008
Wikimedia Creative Commons photo by 663highland
Tanabe Coast Guard District Lighthouses
Tanabe City Lighthouses
* Mori West Breakwater
1966. Active; focal plane 11 m (36 ft); continuous green light with a more intense flash every 6 s. 8.5 m (28 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment room. Lighthouse covered with white tiles. Trabas has a closeup photo and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Located at the end of a short breakwater on the west side of the entrance to the sheltered Mori harbor, on the south side of Tanabe. Accessible by walking the pier. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1964; JCG-2932; Admiralty M5981.6; NGA 6872.
Egawa East Breakwater
1968. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); red light, 2 s on, 2 s off. 9 m (30 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment room. Lighthouse covered with red tiles. Trabas has a closeup photo and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Located at the end of the east breakwater of the Egawa harbor, on the west side of Tanabe. Site status unknown. ARLHS JPN-1975; JCG-2925; Admiralty M5980.4; NGA 6852.
Tanabe Takashi Kansaki
Date unknown. Apparently inactive. Approx. 8 m (26 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment room. Entire lighthouse is white. Kanoko Tanaka has a view from the mainland is available, another photo (misidentified as #2918, halfway down the page) is also available, and Google has a satellite view. This lighthouse is not listed by JCG or by the Admiralty. Located on an islet at the north side of the entrance to Tanabe harbor. It appears that one can cross to the island at low tide. Site open, tower closed. ex-JCG-2921(?).
Tanabe Kō (Tanabe Okinoshima) (2)
1962. Active; focal plane 15 m (49 ft); white flash every 3 s. Approx. 10 m (33 ft) round tapered concrete tower with gallery. Entire lighthouse is white. FOAL has two photos (bottom of the page), Trabas has a view, and Google has a satellite view. Located on a small island in the entrance to Tanabe Bay, about 3 km (2 mi) northwest of the Bansho Hana lighthouse. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1976; JCG-2918; Admiralty M5978; NGA 6832.
* Kii Sakai Kō
1984. Active; focal plane 12 m (39 ft); green flash every 3 s. 8 m (26 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment room. Entire lighthouse is white. A Coast Guard photo is at right, Trabas has a photo, and Google has a satellite view and a distant street view. NGA lists this light as "Sima - Haya Wan." Located at the end of the south (main) breakwater of the Sakai fishing port at Haya, northwest of Tanabe. Accessible by walking the pier. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1969; JCG-2916.5; Admiralty M5977.7; NGA 6836.
Kii Sakai Kō Light, Tanabe
Japanese Coast Guard Tanabe Office photo
Minabe Town Lighthouse
Metsu Saki (Metsusaki)
1998. Active; focal plane 8 m (26 ft); six quick light flashes and one long white flash every 15 s. 8 m (26 ft) round cylindrical concrete tower centered on a large square stone pier. Upper half of the lighthouse painted yellow, lower half black. Trabas has a photo, a distant view (#2935.5, halfway down the page) is available, and Google has a satellite view. Located at the end of a reef extending from a promontory at Minabe. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. JCG-2935.5; Admiralty M5977.8.
Inami Town Lighthouse
* Inami Yokoshima Breakwater
1966. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); two red flashes every 6 s. 8.5 m (28 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment room. Lighthouse covered with red tiles. Trabas has a closeup photo, Google has a satellite view and a distant street view. Located at the end of the east breakwater of Inami. Accessible by walking the pier. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1946; JCG-2937; Admiralty M5977; NGA 6884.
Gobō City Lighthouse
Gobō Katsuo Shima (Katuoshima)
1972. Active; focal plane 18 m (56 ft); white flash every 4 s. 15 m (49 ft) round white concrete tower. Trabas has a photo, another photo (#2938, halfway down the page) is available, and Google has a satellite view. Located on a small island about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of Gobō. Accessible only by boat. Site status unknown. ARLHS JPN-1940; JCG-2938; Admiralty M5974; NGA 6888.
Mihama Town Lighthouse
#Kii Hino Misaki (2)
1951 (station established 1895). Replaced and demolished in 2017. This was a 14 m (46 ft) round cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a 1-story concrete equipment building. Entire lighthouse painted white. 3rd order Fresnel lens. Lighthouse-Japan.com has good photos, Kiso has a closeup, Misty's Tour has another photo, and Google has a 2014 street view, but Google's satellite view shows that the building has been demolished. FOAL's page has photos of the new lighthouse under construction in March 2017. The first lighthouse was destroyed by a U.S. air raid in 1945. Site open.
* Kii Hino Misaki (3)
2017 (station established 1895). Active; focal plane 127 m (417 ft); three white flashes every 12 s. 17 m (56 ft) octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white. Guo Xiaotian's July 2017 photo (a portion seen at right) shows the completed lighthouse, a 2018 photo is available, Trabas has an excellent closeup, and Google has a satellite view. One of Japan's most important lighthouses, this light stands at the gateway to the Inland Sea (Seto Naikai). Its light has a range of 39 km (24 mi). Located at the tip of a long promontory about 10 km (6 mi) west of Gobō. Accessible by road; parking available. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-255; JCG-3301; Admiralty M5970; NGA 6900.
2017 Kii Hino Misaki Light, Mihama, July 2017
ex-Google Plus photo by Guo Xiaotian
Wakayama Coast Guard District Lighthouses
Hidaka Town Lighthouses
Ao Kō North Breakwater
1974. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); red light, 3 s on, 3 s off. 10 m (33 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment room. Entire lighthouse is red. Trabas has a photo and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Located on the detached outer breakwater of Ao harbor, on the north side of the Hino Misaki peninsula. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1932; JCG-3302; Admiralty M5969.6; NGA 6904.
Naka Iso
1970. Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); two white flashes every 5 s. 16 m (52 ft) round concrete tower, painted black with a red horizontal band. Trabas has a photo, another photo (#3304, halfway down the page) is available, and Google has a satellite view. Located on a rocky reef about 5 km (3 mi) north of Hino Misaki. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. JCG-3304; Admiralty M5969.4; NGA 6912.
Yura Town Lighthouse
Taka Shima
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 15 m (49 ft); six quick white flashes followed by one long white flash every 15 s. 14 m (46 ft) round concrete tower, upper half painted yellow and lower half painted black. Trabas has a good photo, another photo (#3315, less than halfway down the page) is available, and Google has a satellite view. Located on a rocky reef about 5 km (3 mi) southeast of Hirogawa. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. JCG-3315; Admiralty M5968.3; NGA 6948.
Hirogawa Town Lighthouse
#Yuasa Hiro (Yuasahiro) Kō
1998. Inactive since 2014. This was an 8.5 m (28 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story equipment room, covered in white ceramic tile. The light was deactivated in March 2014 and Google's satellite view confirms that it has been removed. Formerly located at the end of the north breakwater at Yuasa. Site open. ARLHS JPN-1988; ex-JCG-3317; ex-Admiralty M5967.9; ex-NGA 6954.
Arida Town Lighthouses
* Kii Myazakino Hana
1966. Active; focal plane 81 m (266 ft); white light occulting once every 8 s. 8.5 m (28 ft) square cylindrical concrete tower with gallery, covered with white ceramic tile. Lighthouse-Japan.com has closeup photos, FOAL's page has photos, Kiso has a distant view, Toshifumi Kishi has a closeup street view, and Google has a distant satellite view. The lighthouse commands a specatcular view. Accessible by a hiking trail; some local knowledge will be needed to find it. Located on the tip of a sharp, forested promontory projecting into the Kii Strait about 5 km (3 mi) southwest of Arida. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-256; JCG-3319; Admiralty M5967.8; NGA 6960.
Shimotsu (Shimotu, Okinoshima)
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 94 m (308 ft); white flash every 4 s. 13 m (43 ft) square cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, rising from a 1-story concrete equipment house. Entire lighthouse is white. Kiso has a photo, a distant view is available, Trabas has a distant view, and Google has a satellite view. The company that installed the solar array for the lighthouse has a page with a closeup photo. Located on a small island about 4 km (2.5 mi) west southwest of the entrance to Shimotsu. Accessible only by boat. Site status unknown. ARLHS JPN-570; JCG-3320; Admiralty M5967.4; NGA 6968.
Shimotsu West (Nishino Ura) Breakwater
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 12 m (39 ft); red flash every 3 s. 9.5 m (31 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment room. Entire lighthouse is red. FOAL has photos (lower half of the page), Trabas has a closeup photo, and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Located on a breakwater on the southwest side of Shimotsu harbor. This breakwater is not walkable. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. JCG-3332; Admiralty M5967.3; NGA 6996.
Shimotsu Kamanoshimo Breakwater
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); green light occulting once every 8 s. 10 m (33 ft) round cylindrical concrete tower attached to a 1-story concete equipment room. Entire lighthouse is white. Trabas has a photo and Google has a satellite view and a distant street view showing the top of the light. Located on a short breakwater on the north side of the entrance to Shimotsu. Accessible only by boat. Site status unknown. ARLHS JPN-1971; JCG-3329; Admiralty M5967; NGA 6984.
Tsubune (Tubune) Hana
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 29 m (95 ft); white light, 3 s on, 3 s off; also a continuous white spotlight (JCG-3328) illuminates a nearby reef. 9.5 m (31 ft) round white concrete tower. Trabas has a photo, FOAL has a photo, and Google has a satellite view. Located atop a steep promontory on the north side of the entrance to Osaki Bay. Site and tower closed (the light is in an oil tank farm). ARLHS JPN-685; JCG-3327; Admiralty M5966.5; NGA 6980.
Kainan City Lighthouses
#Kainan Kō South Breakwater (1)
1969. Replaced and demolished in 2017. This was a 9.5 m (31 ft) round hourglass-shaped concrete tower. Entire lighthouse was red. In October 2017 the Admiralty announced a new light (focal plane 9 m, red flash every 3 s) on a 5 m (16 ft) post. Google's satellite view appears to show this new light and Trabas has a photo. The Kainan breakwaters were completely rebuilt in 2015-17. Located on the short south breakwater at the entrance to Kainan harbor. Site open but difficult to reach, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1951; JCG-3337; ex-Admiralty M5966; NGA 7000.
#Kainan Kō North Breakwater (1)
Date unknown. Replaced and demolished in 2017. This was a 10 m (33 ft) round hourglass-shaped concrete tower. Entire lighthouse was white. The active light (focal plane 11 m (36 ft); green flash every 3 s) is on a 6 m (20 ft) post. No photo of the original light is available. FOAL has November 2017 photos of the new light, Trabas has a photo and it is also seen in Google's satellite view. Located on the north breakwater at the entrance to Kainan harbor. Site status unknown. ARLHS JPN-1950; JCG-3338; Admiralty M5966.2; NGA 7004.
Wakayama City Lighthouses
* Wakaura Gyoko West Breakwater
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 12 m (39 ft); continuous green light with a more intense flash every 5 s. 10 m (33 ft) round hourglass-shaped concrete tower. Entire lighthouse is white. The Coast Guard's photo is at right, Trabas has a photo, another photo is available, and Google has a satellite view and a street view across the harbor. Located on the west breakwater of a small boat harbor at the southeastern corner of Wakayama city. Accessible by walking the pier. Site open, tower closed. JCG-3340; Admiralty M5965.2; NGA 7008.
Wakaura Gyoko West Breakwater Light, Wakayama, July 2010
Japanese Coast Guard Wakayama Office photo
* Saika (Saiga) Saki Kō (Wakayama Shimotsu Kō)
1983. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); two green flashes every 8 s. 10 m (33 ft) concrete post attached to a square 1-story equipment room, covered in white ceramic tile. Trabas has a photo and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Located at the end of the south breakwater at the harbor sheltered by Saika Saki, on the south side of Wakayama. Accessible by walking the pier. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1967; JCG-3340.5; Admiralty M5965.05; NGA 7016.
** Saika (Saiga) Saki
1960. Active; focal plane 75 m (246 ft); white flash every 8 s.14 m (46 ft) round cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery. the tower is also surrounded by two large observation platforms accessed by stairways. Entire lighthouse is white. A photo is at the top of this page, Trabas has a photo, Lighthouse-Japan.com has a page with photos, Kiso has a good photo, Misty's Tour has additional photos, and Google has a street view and a satellite view. The observation platforms provide a wide view of the Kii Strait and the coast of Shikoku. Located on a high promontory about 7 km (4.5 mi) south of Wakayama. Parking is provided next to the lighthouse. Site open, observation platforms open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-525; JCG-3341; Admiralty M5965; NGA 7018.
Wakayama Kō South Breakwater (2?)
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); two red flashes every 7 s. 13 m (43 ft) round concrete tower with lantern and gallery. Entire lighthouse is red. Trabas has a photo, Kazutaka Tsutsui has a photo, and Google has a satellite view and a very distant street view. This light was formerly located at the end of a short pier on the south side of the traditional harbor of Wakayama. That pier no longer serves as a breakwater; satellite photos show a newer south outer breakwater that encloses it. The light was either relocated or demolished and rebuilt. Located at the end of the new south breakwater. Accessible only by boat. Site and tower closed. JCG-3344; Admiralty M5963; NGA 7028.
Wakayama Kō North Breakwater
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 16 m (52 ft); two green flashes every 7 s. 13 m (43 ft) round concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white. Thomas Prinz posted the photo at right, Trabas has a photo, Negoro Nemu has a photo, and Google has a satellite view. Located at the end of the north breakwater of the traditional harbor of Wakayama. This pier does not appear to be walkable, but there should be a good view from ferries crossing the Kii Strait to Tokushima, Shikoku. Site and tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1987; JCG-3345; Admiralty M5964; NGA 7032.
Wakayama Kita Kō West Breakwater
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); red light, 3 s on, 3 s off. 17 m (56 ft) round concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted red. Trabas has a distant view and Google has a satellite view. Land has been filled south of this pier for a new industrial area, so the "breakwater" is now only a few tens of meters long. Located on the south side of the entrance to Wakayama's newer harbor; possibly accessible. Site status unknown. ARLHS JPN-1955; JCG-3353; Admiralty M5961.6; NGA 7036.
North Breakwater Light, Wakayama, October 2009
ex-Panoramio photo copyright Thomas Prinz; permission requested
Wakayama Kita Kō North Breakwater
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); green light, 3 s on, 3 s off. 17 m (56 ft) round concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white. Trabas has a distant view and Google has a satellite view. Located at the end of the breakwater on the north side of the entrance to Wakayama's newer harbor. Site status unknown. ARLHS JPN-1954; JCG-3352; Admiralty M5961.8; NGA 7034.
* Takura Saki
1956. Active; focal plane 49 m (161 ft); white light, 3 s on, 3 s off; in addition, a continuous white spotlight (JCG-3355) illuminates a reef 300 m (330 yd) northwest. 11 m (36 ft) concrete post with gallery, rising from a 1-story hexagonal concrete equipment shelter. Entire lighthouse is white. Trabas has a photo, a 2018 closeup is available, Lighthouse-Japan.com has a page with good photos, FOAL's page has photos, Kiso has a photo, Misty's Tour has another photo, Toshifumi Kishi has a street view, and Google has a satellite view. Takura Saki is a promontory at the north end of the Kii Strait and the south end of Ōsaka Wan; the entrance to the bay is only about 6 km (3.5 mi) wide. Accessible by a hiking trail. Located on the cape, about 7 km (4.5 mi) west of Wakayama. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-622; JCG-3354; Admiralty M5961; NGA 7040.
* Kada Kō Outer Breakwater
1989. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft), red light, 3 s on, 3 s off. 10 m (33 ft) round concrete tower, flared at the top, attached to a square 1-story concrete equipment shelter. Entire lighthouse is red. A 2016 closeup photo is available, Trabas also has a closeup photo, Atsushi Ikawa has a view along the breakwater, FOAL's page has photos (lower half of the page), and Google has a satellite view and a very distant street view across the harbor. Located at the end of the main breakwater of Kada harbor, just north of Takura Saki. Accessible by walking the pier. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1948; JCG-3502.8; Admiralty M5960.5; NGA 7206.
* Tomoga (Tomo Ga) Shima
1872 (Richard Henry Brunton). Active; focal plane 60 m (197 ft); flash every 5 s, alternately red and white. 12 m (39 ft) round cylindrical stone tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a semicircular 1-story equipment house. Entire lighthouse painted white. Detached 1-story keeper's house. A Coast Guard photo is at right, Lighthouse-Japan.com has photos, FOAL's page has photos, Kiso has a photo, Naoki Tsuruta has a 2017 closeup, Trabas has a distant view, and Google has a closeup street view and a satellite view. Military engineers moved the lighthouse 25 m (82 ft) east in 1890 to make way for a coastal defense battery. Tomoga Shima is a general name for a group of four islands in the entrance to Ōsaka Wan from the Kii Strait (Kii Suido). This historic lighthouse is built on Okino Shima, the largest and highest of the four. The island is a historic site and nature preserve, with hiking trails and the remains of military installations from World War II and earlier. Passenger ferry transportation is available from Kada, a small port just north of Takura Saki. Located at the western end of the island, about 6 km (3.5 mi) northwest of Takura Saki. Accessible by a hiking trail. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS JPN-669; JCG-3501; Admiralty M5960; NGA 7200.
Zino (Jino) Shima
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 55 m (180 ft); two white flashes every 8 s. 9.5 m (31 ft) octagonal white concrete tower. Trabas has a distant view, FOAL has distant views (bottom of the page), and Google has a satellite view. Zino Shima is the easternmost island of the Tomoga Shima group, and his lighthouse guides ships through the narrow channel, only 800 m (1/2 mi) wide, between the island and the mainland. The island is owned by the military and closed to civilians. Located on a hill at the eastern end of Zino Shima, about 5 km (3 mi) north of Takura Saki. Site and tower closed. ARLHS JPN-1990; JCG-3502; Admiralty M5959; NGA 7204.
Tomoga Shima Light, Wakayama
Japanese Coast Guard Fifth District photo
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Adjoining pages: North: Ōsaka | South: Southern Wakayama
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Posted November 5, 2006. Checked and revised April 27, 2019. Lighthouses: 32. Site copyright 2019 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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