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The Bushfires Royal Commission gave a "conservative" estimate of the total cost of the Black Saturday bushfires of $4.4 billion. This figure included a value of $645 million placed on the 173 lives lost using an accepted method the government uses to value lives, however did not include any assessment of the cost of the injuries received. [163]
Inside the Firestorm is a 2010 documentary film written and directed by Jacob Hickey. It was a look back at the Black Saturday bushfires.Hickey interviewed eight families who survived and told their stories through the interviews, file footage and survivors own footage.
The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of fires that ignited across the Australian state of Victoria during extreme weather conditions on 7 February 2009. Burning around 450,000 ha for over a month, the fires destroyed over 2,100 homes, destroyed several regional towns and were fought by over 5,000 firefighting personnel.
Black Saturday bushfires: 173 fatalities, 2,056 houses lost and 239,637 hectares (592,160 acres) burned on 7 February at numerous locations in Victoria [14] 2007–08 Australian bushfire season: 5 fatalities, 1 house lost; 2007 Kangaroo Island bushfires; 3 truck drivers killed [21] on 30 December at Boorabbin National Park in Western Australia [22]
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The Black Saturday bushfires are some of Australia's most destructive and deadly fires that fall under the category of a "firestorm" due to the extreme fire behavior and relationship with atmospheric responses that occurred during the fires.
Wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area continued to burn mostly out of control on Thursday, with at least five blazes engulfing more than 45 square miles.. At least 16 people have died as a ...
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