Deadly wildfires in Australia

Aussie firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured koala near the town of Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the region on Monday.  (Mark Pardew / Associated Press)

Fire crews work to control a grassfire along a containment line in the Kiewa Valley. They were hoping to prevent the bushfire from reaching the town of Dederang.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

Facing the flames in Australia’s Kiewa Valley.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

Firefighters douse hotspots in a tree stump on the edge of Healesville, Australia, on Tuesday.  (Willian West / AFP / Getty Images)

A firefighter walks among the blackened remains in Bendigo, Australia.  (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)

A forest continues to burn near Healesville, Australia.  (Luis Ascui / Getty Images)

Janice Crowther and Dave Prewett, near the ruins of a neighbor’s house at Chum Creek, were among Australians who stayed to fight the firestorms. “Initially, there was smoke and that’s what alerted us to go outside and have a look,” Prewett told AFP. They were met with a terrifying sight: “fires burning 360 degrees around us,” he said. “I hopped up on the roof to see it coming through the paddocks, I could see the glow coming down from the mountains, it was really scary. Like the roar of a jet engine.”  (Willian West / AFP / Getty Images)

A red sun rises over scorched eucalyptus forests.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

Firefighters work to contain the fire in Australia’s Kiewa Valley on Tuesday.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

Sheep struggle to find fodder in a burned-out paddock after a bushfire swept through Mudgegonga.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

Firefighters from New South Wales defending the town of Dederang take a brief rest.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

A burning tree can be seen near a gutted home in Kinglake, northeast of Melbourne, on Sunday. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described the wildfire disaster as “hell in all its fury.” Some of the fires have been blamed on arsonists.  (William West / AFP/Getty Images)

A firefighter tries to contain a blaze approaching the town of Peats Ridge, north of Sydney, on Sunday.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP/Getty Images)

Firefighters watch a helicopter drop water on a fire approaching Peats Ridge on Sunday.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP/Getty Images)

The remains of St. Andrew’s church in Kinglake are scattered about on Monday after a fire swept through.  (Rick Rycroft / AFP/Getty Images)

A firefighter surveys the damage from a blaze nearing Peats Ridge, north of Sydney, on Sunday.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP/Getty Images)

A Country Fire Authority truck nears a fire at the Bunyip State Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, Victoria, on Saturday.  (Andrew Brownbill / EPA)