Australia's bushfires may be thousands of miles away from northwest Ohio, but the impact is being felt in Bowling Green. "It's the animals, it's the people that are suffering and ... it certainly breaks your heart just thinking about that," Bowling Green Fire Chief Bill Moorman said.
Moorman is an Australia native. Before moving to the United States, he even served as a volunteer firefighter for seven years in his rural hometown of Mt. Beauty, Victoria, an area surrounded by the devastating fires.
"It's just a very sad time for Australia with these fires," Moorman said. "They're unprecedented fires that they've never seen these in the history of bushfires in Australia."