Tally Begins on Fire Damage After Long Night: Australia Update

(Bloomberg) -- Authorities are assessing mass property damage across southeastern Australia after searing temperatures and strong winds fanned catastrophic wildfires Saturday in one of the worst days of the weeks-long crisis.Dozens of communities, from small towns on the south coast of New South Wales, to alpine villages in neighboring Victoria state, faced extreme conditions as fires grew so large they generated dry thunderstorms.Thousands of people, including tourists, had heeded the advice of