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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]
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 Tuesday bushfires: Tasmania: 264,000 650,000 64 1,293 0 [10] 1968 – 69 [clarification needed] 1968-69 Killarney Top Springs bushfires Northern Territory 40,000,000 99,000,000 0 0 0 29 November 1968 1968 Blue Mountains Bushfire New South Wales 4 approx. 120: 0 [citation needed] 8 January 1969 1969 bushfires Victoria 23 230 0 [13] 1969 – 70
Black Christmas bushfires 2001–2002 (New South Wales) with 750,000 hectares burnt. Canberra bushfires of 2003; Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 (Victoria) with 400,000 hectares burnt and the highest death toll of over 170 deaths. 2019–20 Australian bushfire season – "Black summer" – the worst bushfire season in modern Australian history ...
The tail end of the heat wave also precipitated the Black Saturday bushfires, in which 173 people died, 414 injured and 2,029 houses destroyed at various locations across the state. [5] Several locations around the state recorded their highest temperatures since records began in 1859 and winds gusted up to 110 km/h. [33]
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Black Friday site on the ABC ABC site with comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the fires. Map of the area burnt by the 1939 bushfires; State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about the Black Friday fires.
The LA wildfires across the state of California this week have taken the lives of 5 individuals and thousands displaced from their homes. These before and after pictures show the wildlife's ...