From the Daily os. I'm Emma, I'm lucy. It's Tuesday, the fourteenth of January. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Several homes have been evacuated after a landslide destroyed a house in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. Emergency services were called to McCrae this morning after a home collapse down a cliff injuring a local council worker. Vick Emergency has issued a landslide alert, warning the slope could continue to move in
the days ahead. Residents from seven neighboring properties have been evacuated from their homes amid the continuing risk, and anyone in the area has been urged to stay away from the landslide.
Fire crews in La are bracing for the return of dangerous Santa Anna winds as the city's wildfire emergency continues. Prolonged guests are expected to bring winds in excess of one hundred kilometers per hour to parts of southern California over the coming hours and days. The National Weather Service has warned the forecasted conditions could lead to explosive fire growth. In opposed to x, The Weather Service's La branch set its issued red flag warnings for Tuesday, which it described
as the extreme of the extreme fire weather scenarios. In other words, it said this setup is about as bad as it gets. Conditions are expected to ease by Friday. The fires have killed at least twenty four people and burned through thousands of acres of land and property.
Mystery balls have forced the closure of nine Sydney beaches as authorities work to determine their contents. Gray and white colored marble sized balls were spotted at several popular swimming spots along Sydney's northern beaches, including Manly d Y and Curl Curl earlier Today. The New South Wales Environment Protection Agency is testing samples of the balls, while the Northern Beaches Council is leaning clean up efforts. It comes after hundreds of tar balls washed up on beaches in Sydney's
East last year. Beach goes have been advised to avoid the debris.
And today's good news, a giant pink slug, thought to have gone extinct after the black Summer bushfires, has been found in a New South Wales National Park. Populations of the fluorescent critter, which can grow longer than a human hand, have bounced back with some eight hundred and fifty recent sidings in an area of northwest New South Wales. It comes after the twenty nineteen bushfires in the Alpine area killed around ninety percent of all computer slugs according to
a report by Guardian Australia. Its comeback was tracked by citizen scientists thanks to the National Parks and Wildlife Service slug Sleuth app.
That's the latest from the Daily Oz newsroom. If you're looking for something else to listen to, make sure you catch up on today's deep dive on y US companies are cutting their diversity efforts.
We'll be back tomorrow morning. Until then, have a great evening.
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