Ancaman kebakaran hutan telah mereda di Tasmania, namun ribuan penduduk terjebak dan sebagian kehilangan segalanya, setelah lebih dari 100 rumah musnah dimakan api.
Ribuan penduduk dan turis terjebak di berbagai bagian Tasmania setelah kebakaran hutan memusnahkan lebih dari 100 properti dan mengisolir komunitas-komunitas.
Ancaman kebakaran hutan telah mereda tapi pihak berwenang memperingatkan penduduk untuk tetap waspada karena api masih terus membara.
Peringatan siaga kebakaran hutan saat ini berlaku untuk Forcett dan Lake Repulse.
Ratusan orang terjebak di Tasman Peninsula selama dua hari setelah kebakaran hutan di timur Hobart mengisolir daerah itu.
Penduduk dan turis diangkut dengan kapal dari semenanjung itu ke Hobart.
Walikota Hobart, Damon Thomas, mengatakan, gedung balai kota telah dibuka sebagai pusat evakuasi.
"Para pengungsi diurus oleh Palang Merah dan badan-badan lainnya, dan tersedia berbagai layanan, termasuk akomodasi darurat," katanya.
Kota Dunalley di timur Hobart adalah yang paling parah menderita dampak kebakaran hutan pada hari Jum'at dan 65 properti dan sekolah lokal musnah.
Pejabat pemadam kebakaran Tasmania, Mike Brown, mengatakan, kehancuran yang terjadi merupakan pemandangan tragis.
"Diperkirakan 30 atau 40 persen properti di Dunalley telah musnah oleh kebakaran," katanya.
Ike Kelly memiliki penggergajian kayu yang musnah dalam kebakaran itu.
"Kebakaran menghancurkan bisnis saya yang bernilai $4 atau $5 juta. 50 tahun dari hidup saya hilang," katanya.
Nick Wardlaw, pemilik Penguin Tours dekat Bicheno mengatakan, sebagian penduduk di daerah Courland Bay kehilangan segalanya setelah kebakaran hutan disana.
"Mereka lari hanya dengan pakaian yang melekat di badan dan tidak punya apa-apa lagi, dan mereka saat ini kamping dengan teman-teman," katanya.
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Photo: Smoke wafts over Coles Bay Road at the Apsley River crossing in Tasmania's north-east amid a fire emergency, January 5, 2012. (ABC News: Jonathan Gul) -
Photo: At least 65 properties in Dunalley, in Tasmania's south-east, have been destroyed by a bushfire, pictured on January 5, 2012. (ABC: Edith Bevin) -
Photo: A primary school at Dunalley, pictured on January 5 2012, has been burnt down in a bushfire that has also destroyed 65 other properties in the area. (ABC: Edith Bevin) -
Photo: A house burns as a bushfire engulfs Connolly Marsh, between Dunalley and Primrose Sands, in south-eastern Tasmania on January 5, 2012. (ABC: Edith Bevin) -
Photo: A house burns near the water at Connolly Marsh, between Dunalley and Primrose Sands, in Tasmania's south-east on January 5, 2012. (ABC: Edith Bevin) -
Photo: The aftermath of a bushfire that ravaged Dunalley in Tasmania's south-east, pictured on January 5, 2012. (ABC: Edith Bevin) -
Photo: Tessa Groenewold takes a photograph of smoke billowing from a bushfire as she evacuates Primrose Sands in Tasmania, January 4, 2012. (Audience submitted: Tessa Groenewold) -
Photo: Residents watch the blaze get bigger at Primrose Sands, in Tasmania's south-east on January 5, 2012. (Audience submitted: Kate Butterworth) -
Photo: A bushfire at Dunalley lights up the skies at nearby Primrose Sands in Tasmania's south-east on the evening of January 4, 2012. (Audience submitted: Kathy Webster) -
Photo: Smoke from a bushfire along the Tasman Highway rises above Bicheno, in eastern Tasmania, on January 5, 2012. (Audience submitted: Ken Collier) -
Photo: A view of bushfires on the Tasman Peninsula, as seen from Hobart, January 4, 2012. (Audience submitted: Ian Stewart) -
Photo: Fires burn at Forcett, just east of Hobart, as seen from across Storm Bay, January 4, 2013.
(Audience submitted: Michael Gay Photography) -
Photo: The bushfire burns at Dodges Ferry in Tasmania on January 4, 2013. (ABC Open Tas via Twitter) -
Photo: The view from Hobart towards Dunalley on January 4, 2013. (Ian Lim/DiscoverTasmania) -
Photo: The deep red over Mt Wellington in Hobart, Tasmania on January 4, 2013. (Twitter: @SussanSays) -
Photo: Smoke from the Derwent Valley fire creates a dramatic sunset over Mt Wellington, as seen from the Eastern Shore, on January 4, 2013. (Audience submitted: Matthew Fletcher) -
Photo: Bushland destroyed by the bushfire burning out of control near Lake Repulse, north-west of New Norfolk in southern Tasmania on January 4, 2013. -
Photo: A photo of the fires in Bicheno taken from the Tasman Highway at 5.30pm on January 4, 2013 (Audience submitted: Bridgette Huddlestone) -
Photo: Smoke from a bushfire near Forcett towers over Park Beach outside Hobart, Tasmania, on January 4, 2013. (Twitter: Mic and Jo Giuliani) -
Photo: Smoke from a bushfire rises over a Hobart neighbourhood on January 4, 2013. (Twitter: Botonaine) -
Photo: Smoke rises from a bushfire in the Forcett/Copping area outside Hobart, Tasmania on January 4, 2013. (Rebecca White) -
Photo: A helicopter dumps water on a bushfire in Epping Forest, in the Northern Midlands area of Tasmania, on January 4, 2013. (ABC News: Emily Bryan) -
Photo: Smoke billows from the bushfire raging near Forcett in south east Tasmania, January 3, 2013. Read the story (Audience submitted: Ian Stewart) -
Photo: A large plume of smoke rises from the bushfire raging at Richmond in south east Tasmania, January 3, 2013. Read the story (Audience submitted: Andrew Page) -
Photo: A bushfire which began burning near Forcett yesterday is threatening communities around Copping. (ABC: Andrew Fisher)
