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Australian family avoids fire tornadoes by clinging to jetty for 3 hours
Wednesday, January 9, 2013    
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Australia's record-breaking heatwave has sent temperatures soaring, melting road tar and setting off hundreds of wildfires

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As "tornadoes of fire" roared toward their home, the Holmes family fled and then jumped into the sea, clinging to a jetty for three hours to escape wildfires that have devastated Australia.

The blaze spread swiftly in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, Tim Holmes said. "The next thing we knew everything was on fire, everywhere, all around us," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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