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Parts of Australia have been on high alert for bushfire danger this summer, following several quieter seasons compared with the 2019-20 fires which were linked to hundreds of deaths and swept ...
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.
Subterranean fire, sparked underground The 2023 Wanneroo bushfire was a bushfire that began on 22 November 2023 in Wanneroo , 36 kilometres (22 miles) north of the Perth central business district , in the City of Wanneroo , Western Australia .
The fires have destroyed at least five homes and injured several people, including firefighters which were responding to one of the fires in the Perth Hills. The firefighters had their truck roll over, with two of the firefighters hospitalized. [73] 26 December a firefighter died while fighting a fire near Esperance, Western Australia. [74]
Australia's tourism and insurance industries have already foreshadowed they face a A$1 billion ($687 million) hit each from the fires. REFILE-Australian bushfires hit coal output, conditions to worsen
Australia suffered a catastrophic series of wildfires in 2019-2020 known as "Black Summer", which destroyed an area the size of Turkey and killed 33 people, the majority in New South Wales.
The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, [a] or Black Summer, was one of the most intense and catastrophic fire seasons on record in Australia.It included a period of bushfires in many parts of Australia, which, due to its unusual intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension, was considered a megafire by media at the time.
A Canadian family, who took refuge from fires in Australia in a movie theater for six days, was finally rescued. Family rescued from Australian fires after being trapped for 6 days: 'Felt like a ...