"The sky was yellow, like the apocalypse"

Giacomo Paganelli, our listener, tells us about the experience of the dramatic fire emergency from Canberra, ACT, where the air quality has been very low for several weeks now.

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"In Canberra we had what you (in Melbourne) are experiencing now ten days ago, when the level of PM 2.5 in the air was so extreme that the sky turned yellow, like the apocalypse."

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