Australians urged to refuse fireworks because of forest fires

Natural fires which captured Australia do not cease. In the same time the country is going to celebrate New year with traditional fireworks. This idea was scarified already by inhabitants and started signing in large quantities the petition on a site Change.org where demanded from the authorities to transfer the funds allocated for pyrotechnics to fire-fighting. At the time of writing materials the petition were signed by more than 267 thousand people. In the petition it is said that last year only Sydney spent for organization of fireworks 5,8 million Australian dollars (251 million rubles). Also authors noted that in air already...