Airbnb offers free emergency housing for people displaced by Australian bushfires
Thousands of people in Australia are being urged to flee their homes as bushfires ravage huge swaths of the country.
Airbnb is offering free emergency accommodation for people displaced by the fires and for those helping with relief efforts in the affected states of New South Wales and Victoria.
The devastation left in the wake of the fires is unparalleled, and they're still burning. Nineteen people have died. 1,365 homes in NSW have been consumed by the fires. 3.5 percent of Victoria has been burned and over 11 million acres have been destroyed.
Authorities in Victoria sent 250,000 texts to people in bushfire-affected areas asking them evacuate. And in NSW, people in a 14,000 square kilometre area have been implored to leave the area overnight. Hundreds of people were unable to evacuate after being stranded by fires and are now being rescued by sea and air.
If you have been evacuated from your home or are assisting with recovery efforts, Airbnb is offering free, temporary accommodation between Jan. 2 and Jan. 16. using its established Open Homes platform.
If you are in Victoria, click here to search and apply for Airbnb emergency housing. If you are in NSW, click here to do so.
Want to help?
You can offer any extra space in your home to people affected by the bushfires and relief workers.
Airbnb needs people who have housing available from Jan. 1 to Jan. 16 2020.
Per Airbnb, you'll need to provide: "A spare room or apartment, a comfortable bed, basic amenities and toiletries, availability for 2 or more days in a row."
If you're in NSW, click here and scroll down to the section which reads 'Offer emergency housing in New South Wales'. If you're in Victoria, click here and scroll down to the 'offer' section.
If you don't already have an Airbnb account, you will need to set one up in order to access or offer emergency housing — it's quick to do so. After searching for accommodation, you'll need to message a host to request to stay.
You can read more here about helping Australia's unpaid firefighters battle the bushfire crisis.
It's very sad . 😥
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//Thousands of people in Australia are being urged to flee their homes as bushfires ravage huge swaths of the country.
Airbnb is offering free emergency accommodation for people displaced by the fires and for those helping with relief efforts in the affected states of New South Wales and Victoria.
The devastation left in the wake of the fires is unparalleled, and they're still burning. Nineteen people have died. 1,365 homes in NSW have been consumed by the fires. 3.5 percent of Victoria has been burned and over 11 million acres have been destroyed.
Authorities in Victoria sent 250,000 texts to people in bushfire-affected areas asking them evacuate. And in NSW, people in a 14,000 square kilometre area have been implored to leave the area overnight. Hundreds of people were unable to evacuate after being stranded by fires and are now being rescued by sea and air.
If you have been evacuated from your home or are assisting with recovery efforts, Airbnb is offering free, temporary accommodation between Jan. 2 and Jan. 16. using its established Open Homes platform.
SEE ALSO: How to help Australia's unpaid firefighters battle the bushfire crisis
If you are in Victoria, click here to search and apply for Airbnb emergency housing. If you are in NSW, click here to do so.
Want to help?
You can offer any extra space in your home to people affected by the bushfires and relief workers.
Airbnb needs people who have housing available from Jan. 1 to Jan. 16 2020.
Per Airbnb, you'll need to provide: "A spare room or apartment, a comfortable bed, basic amenities and toiletries, availability for 2 or more days in a row."
If you're in NSW, click here and scroll down to the section which reads 'Offer emergency housing in New South Wales'. If you're in Victoria, click here and scroll down to the 'offer' section.
If you don't already have an Airbnb account, you will need to set one up in order to access or offer emergency housing — it's quick to do so. After searching for accommodation, you'll need to message a host to request to stay.
You can read more here about helping Australia's unpaid firefighters battle the bushfire crisis.
TOPICS: AIRBNB, AUSTRALIA, BUSHFIRES, CLIMATE-ENVIRONMENT, FIRE, FIRES, SOCIAL GOOD, WORK/LIFE
To the author:
ReplyDeleteMaybe if you had written an article on factual information, instead of the climate change, Green infused politically driven diatribe you used, your article might have been worth reading.
For a Science editor, your article is eyebrow deep in politics.
PS: I guess if you have never left Sydney, you might not be aware that Australian Firefighting Policy is a State based business, not Federal.
As to your tripe on the Koala, please stop listening to WWF advertising.
ReplyDeleteKoalas are nowhere near extinction, they just sell well in donation advertising.
Hmm, Koala Clap (chlamydia) is one of the biggest killers, along with property development in QLD.
DeleteI feel absolutely embarrassed for you, a person who did not read the article, because I explicitly stated (and linked to) a piece that *I* wrote about the koala not being close to extinct, despite media reports. It's worth reading the piece before commenting on it.
DeleteSome say the world will end in fire, some say in ice...now we know it’s gonna be fire.
ReplyDeleteAnd for the sake of all that is sane, DO SOMETHING about the climate emergency!
ReplyDeleteWill? Its already happening.
ReplyDeleteThis is what the world looks like.
ReplyDeleteIt’s just moving with the seasons.
Us Aussies have to fight this until at least March.
Send this tape to Trump. Of course, you will have to send an interrupter so that person can explain it to him. If unavailable I’m sure a 5th grader could do it also.
ReplyDeleteYES. We are the canary in the mine.
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ReplyDeleteHonestly, this scares the shit out of me. And that's not something that's easy to accomplish. Can you imagine if something like this happened on the US east coast?
ReplyDeleteIt did we had huge fires this summer. Most likely bigger next year.
DeleteClimate change has nothing to do with it.
ReplyDeleteThere are many possibilities for fighting fire. It is strange that they are not used in Australia.
LET'S FUCKING HELP!!!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.airbnb.com.au/openhomes/disaster-relief/victoriabushfires20
https://www.airbnb.com.au/openhomes/disaster-relief/bushfire-new-south-wales-2020-01
Pray for Australia
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