‘Hellish night’: homes lost in WA bushfires as specialist crews called in from interstate

At least four homes have been lost in bushfires that have been bearing down on the towns of Bridgetown and Denmark in Western Australia, with the state’s fire commissioner attributing the intensity of the fires to the changing climate.

The WA emergency services minister, Stephen Dawson, on Sunday confirmed properties and businesses had been affected, but the scale of the damage would not be known until assessors moved through.