Wildfire razes vast tracts of northeast Australia

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A wildfire stoked by heatwave conditions in northeast Australia has destroyed at least four homes, forced the evacuation of hundreds of others and razed 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) of farmland and woodland, authorities said Tuesday. Police had been knocking on doors of homes in the small rural communities of Baffle Creek, […]