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The 2023 Darling Downs fires was an Australian bushfire that began on 23 October 2023 after emergency warnings were issued for multiple bushfires in the Darling Downs region but particularly concentrated in the Western Downs Region and in Milmerran Woods. More than 40 fires burned across Darling Downs, with two fatalities in the town of Tara ...
1944 Blue Mountains bushfire New South Wales: 0 approx. 40: 0 [14] [15] November 1951 – January 1952 1951–52 bushfires Victoria 4,000,000 9,900,000 11 0 0 [16] 2 January 1955 Black Sunday bushfires: South Australia: 39,000–160,000 96,000–395,000 2 40 [b] 0 [17] [18] 30 November 1957 1957 Grose Valley bushfire, Blue Mountains New South ...
The 2024–25 Australian bushfire season [a] is the current summer season of bushfires in Australia. At the beginning of the season temperatures had been above average to high above average for most regions, with parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland experiencing highest on record maximum temperatures for the winter period ...
Bushfire smoke was visible from space on November 28, as out-of-control fires burned on Queensland’s coast.Deepwater residents were issued with a “leave now” notice in the afternoon of ...
Footage filmed by a resident of Sunshine Acres, Queensland, shows flames and plumes of smoke edging towards a road shortly before it was closed by emergency services on February 4.Seth Gordon said ...
According to Tim Flannery (The Future Eaters), fire is one of the most important forces at work in the Australian environment.Some plants have evolved a variety of mechanisms to survive or even require bushfires (possessing epicormic shoots or lignotubers that sprout after a fire, or developing fire-resistant or fire-triggered seeds), or even encourage fire (eucalypts contain flammable oils in ...
Many parts of eastern Australia including Queensland, New South Wales and Gippsland, in Victoria, were already in drought. [1] Above normal fire was also predicted for large parts of Southern Australia and Eastern Australia by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC. The forecast noted that Queensland had recorded the ninth driest and fourth ...
The distraction of the Central Queensland bushfires is what a Queensland funeral driver said in court caused him to drive off with a corpse of a stillborn baby on the roof of his vehicle which then fell onto the roadside, following a transfer between vehicles on the Sunshine Coast while it was being transported from Rockhampton to Brisbane. [28]