Fire!!

Please believe me, I am not making light of the fires burning in Australia.  I really like Australia.  I got to pat a Koala while I was there; one of the softest things I've ever touched.  But I do sometimes question the statistics I hear on TV.  A few days ago a reporter stated that one fourth of Australia was in flames.  One fourth?  A map on a later news cast showed patches of fire, but it certainly didn't look like one fourth.  Today I learned that 25,000,000 acres have been or are being burned.  25,000,000 acres equals 39,062.5 square miles.  Australia's area is 2.97 million square miles (I'm using Google info here),  If you divide 2,970,000 by 39,062.5 the answer is 76.  So it would seem that one fourth of Australia is not burning.  Thank goodness. I'm sure they feel that 1/76 is quite enough.  I wish there was a way we could send them the rain we're supposed to get tomorrow.