Amazing! Sikh Restaurant Owners Distribute Free Food To Aussie Locals Affected By Bushfires
Thousands of people including tourists have been evacuating Australia s wildfire-ravaged eastern coast as the situation worsens every minute. High temperatures and strong winds are predicted for the weekend leading to widespread extreme fire danger in the southeastern Australian state of New South Wales.
Thousands of people, including many tourists, have been evacuating Australia's wildfire-ravaged eastern coast as the situation worsens every minute.
High temperatures and strong winds are predicted for the weekend, leading to "widespread extreme fire danger" in the southeastern Australian state of New South Wales.
Amidst the chaos, some good Samaritans are lending a helping hand to the people dealing with the crisis, like this Indian couple who decided to offer free food.
The owners of an Indian restaurant in Bairnsdale offered free food to firefighters and victims of the bushfires in the East Gippsland area.
Kanwaljit Singh and his wife Kamaljit Kaur have lived in the area for six years now and they felt it was their responsibility to help those who were suffering. The restaurant says it can cook for up to 1000 people a day and has been stocking up on rice, flour and lentils, in this time of crisis.
¡°It¡¯s terrible out there. People are severely affected and they need food and shelter. It¡¯s our duty to serve them when they need us the most,¡± Kanwaljit told media outlet SBS Punjabi.
The military arrived in East Gippsland on Wednesday and Black Hawk helicopters are helping to get evacuees off of the Mallacoota beach.
"Our focus today is we've got 4000 people in and around the beach there at Mallacoota and we're working with the (Australian Defence Force) and all the authorities, Victoria Police, SES, all the agencies are working together and our primary effort is to get those people out of Mallacoota," CFA chief officer Steve Warrington told ABC News.rs.
Kanwaljit Singh and his wife Kamaljit Kaur own the Desi Grill in Bairnsdale in eastern Victoria where fires have destroyed homes.
¡°Last night had been very busy. We helped the volunteers with cooking rice, curries and pasta and the food was distributed in at least 500 takeaway contained."
"We follow the Sikh way of life. We are just doing what other Australians are doing today, and that is to serve and pray for the people who have been hit hard by these terrible bushfires,¡± the restaurant owner said.
The volunteers from Sikh Volunteers Australia have been taking food trucks to various parts of Victoria and providing food in camps. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews visited volunteers to appreciate their help.
This is the second such report of Sikh volunteers victims of the Bushfire. Just a few months ago a gurudwara served free food to firefighters.
According to reports, the crisis has drawn attention to climate change, which scientists say is creating a longer and more intense bushfire season.
David Warner posted an emotional message for Australians who are fighting the bushfires raging across the country, after coming across a picture on the Internet that shows a man sitting with a dog on a beach facing the devastating bushfires.
The blazes have also destroyed more than 1,000 homes and scorched more than three million hectares (7.4 million acres) -- an area bigger than Belgium, reports AFP.
Conditions were also expected to deteriorate in worst-hit New South Wales, where 100 fires were burning including more than 40 uncontained.
Sydney and other major cities have been shrouded in toxic bushfire smoke haze for weeks, forcing children to play indoors and causing professional sporting events to be cancelled.
