Question

关于火灾的英语短文

Answer 1

There was a big fire in one office building in our neighborhood at about nine4 o’clock last night. Many firemen and fire engines came. In the beginning, we saw flames with thick black smoke coming out from the sixth floor; and we also heard the explosion of the gas tank mixed with the noisy sounds from shattering windows. Soon the fire spread one by one to the floors above, and finally reach the top floor. Some aluminum window frames and some brick walls meted and collapsed from the heat. Many people like myself stood outside on the streets watching the fire in horror as we heard the sirens and gas explosions. Luckily there was no one in that office building when the fire broke out. The fire-men were unable to control the fire until the top floor was burned out; it took about one and a half hours for the firemen to put out the big fire. The next morning newspapers carried the story and pictures of the fire.

Answer 2

ere are many natural hazards that have greatly affected the lives of many Australian. The one I chose is bushfire.

(1) Definition of the natural hazard
bushfire is a term used to describe almost any form of fire burning out of control whether the fire was planned or unplanned

(2) Where and why it happened?
Now, I’ll talk about the Canberra bushfire occurred in January 2003.
On 18 January 2003, bushfires swept into suburban Canberra. It was a hot day with strong winds, and very dry, probably the worst drought in Australia. The temperature was rising higher and higher on the day, from 37�0�2C to 49.5�0�2. So with the combination of extreme weather conditions(dry, high temperature, lightning strikes, strong winds) and flammable trees. At 9.00pm, the bushfire begun. It was 20 kilometres from the city, multiple bushfires broke out in the Kosciuszko and Namadgi National parks surrounding Canberra and spreading to many residential areas.
This map here shows the bushfire surrounding areas.

(3) Impact
At 9.00pm on 19 January, which was the second day, 4 people were dead and 388 homes destroyed in a 12 hours period. Several people died, and about 530 houses were destroyed. Many of the commercial properties have also been damaged.

The bushfire has greatly affected forest pine plantations there as well. It destroyed over 10,500 hectares of the pine plantations to the west of Canberra.

(4) Preventative measures
People tried their best to reduce the damage caused by the bushfire. But unfortunately, the fire was very hard to control because of the dry weather and strong winds.
Residents, homeowners and businesses that live or operate in bushfire risk areas are encouraged to learn how to minimize the risk and protect themselves against the threat of a bushfire.
People did a lot of rebuilds after the bushfire as well but the damage of domestic, commercial, motor and others were huge anyway so it’s very hard to let everything come back to normal.

This is the worst bushfire since 1983.