Most of them under the pressure of the high temperature was used for the elderly. Heat wave in power because the courts in Melbourne, Australia, the second-largest city. Peak temperature of 40C in the south - east of Victoria and South Australia states in the last three days did. If the high temperatures will continue on Sunday, the south-eastern Australia has seen in 100 years that the worst heat wave will be equal.
Already the disruption, destruction and death is caused. In Adelaide, South Australia, the capital of more than 20 health sudden deaths, most of them elderly people in the 40C had heart attacks and strokes, which were reported to overcome the temperature for cooking. Forest fires raging through the neighboring municipalities of Victoria's Gippsland region, and all the way at least 10 houses destroyed in the rural city near Boolarra has been deleted.
Melbourne, the state capital, is the importance of heat consumption wave of disruption of transport and power. Because rail lines to the summer range trains have been canceled. A power 300,000 homes without electricity Substation in the upper left of a wave. Some traffic lights work in the city, and the rail network in some parts of the signal has stopped.
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