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| A filmmaker and Instagram star who volunteered to fight Australian wildfires grabbed this baby kangaroo just before flames would have reach it. Video of the rescue has gone viral. |
There's been wildly varying reports of how much wildlife has died, but it's clear the toll is devastating.
When you witness just one animal victim, your heart just breaks. You wish every animal could be rescued.
Such is the case in the video at the bottom of this post, in which a firefighter finds a baby kangaroo, just inches from a line of flames coming at it. .
In the now viral video, fire is creeping along in a forest, and firefighters are trying to stop or slow by spraying water on it from hoses. Suddenly, one of the firefighters, who turns out to be a travel filmmaker and big Instagram star named Sam McGlone, stoops down and grabs the baby kangaroo, which is less than a foot away from the advancing flames. It truly is an incredibly close call.
"I found a baby joey i the fire," McGlone says, turning the camera to face himself. He wrapped the baby kangaroo in a blanket, fed it some water.
Indications are the kangaroo was sent to an animal rehab center.
McGlone also started a GoFundMe page to raise money to help animals affected by the wildfires. He joins many others, including rich and famous celebrities, who have the money and the influence over their fans to raise a lot of money for Australian human and animal fire victims. t
McGlone rescuing the kangaroo was a bright spot in this horrific disaster, but how many animals died because nobody was in the middle of the fires to find them? After all, people were fleeing for their own lives and some didn't make it. So far, at least 24 people have died in the Australian bushfires.
It's not clear how many animals died in the fires, but the numbers are huge. According to The Independent, Universityof Sydney ecologists think perhaps 480 million animals have died in the fire,s including 8,000 or so koalas.
Here's the video:
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