Australia: 260,000 no to New Year fires

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 29 - 260,000 signed a petition to cancel the traditional fireworks of New Year's Eve in Sydney by proposing to use these money to fight the devastating fires that are relentlessly burning weekly, especially in the Australian state of New South Wales. The authorities, however, do not want to give up the usual end of year show for which he has set out to spend 4.5 million dollars this year. The Australian media report.
Sydney therefore wants the show to go on and on, as the Change.org petition requires, that those funds be spent on supporting volunteer firefighters and farmers brought to their knees by a brutal drought. The huge fireworks display on Sydney Harbor "can traumatize some people", states the petition, "since there is already enough smoke in the air".