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The Kinglake fire complex was named after two earlier fires, the Kilmore East fire and the Murrindindi Mill fire, merged following the wind change on the evening of 7 February. [44] The complex was the largest of the many fires burning on Black Saturday, ultimately destroying over 330,000 ha (820,000 acres). [ 45 ]
Map of all of the bushfires in Victoria in the last 50 years. Black Saturday bushfires at Steels Creek in 2009. The state of Victoria in Australia has had a long history of catastrophic bushfires. The most deadly of these, the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 claiming 173 lives.
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.
1982 – Keane fire, Alberta, Canada, consumed more than 500,000 hectares of forest [54] [clarification needed] 1982 – Village of Lopez, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States, entire business district, including two hotels and the fire department leveled by a wind-whipped fire. It also sparked a 100 acre forest fire nearby.
A map of the fire events and fatalities on 7 February 2009 that were the main focus of the Royal Commission. In the preliminary hearing on 20 April, commission counsel Jack Rush delivered in his opening address that an interim report assessing the inadequately short notice warnings would be delivered by the commission to the government by August.
The five most deadly blazes were: Black Saturday 2009 in Victoria (173 people killed, 2000 homes lost); Ash Wednesday 1983 in Victoria and South Australia (75 dead, nearly 1900 homes); Black Friday 1939 in Victoria (71 dead, 650 houses destroyed), Black Tuesday 1967 in Tasmania (62 people and almost 1300 homes); and the Gippsland fires and ...
Upper Blue Mountains fires New South Wales 150 370 0 24 Sheds Main Western Railway Line at Mount Victoria 1 February 1898 Red Tuesday bushfires: Victoria 260,000 640,000 12 0 2,000 [10] [11] [12] February – March 1926: 1926 bushfires: Victoria 390,000 960,000 60 1,000 0 [13] 13 January 1939: Black Friday bushfires: Victoria 2,000,000 ...
Buxton has an active Country Fire Authority station with one medium and one light tanker. The Buxton Fire Brigade was formed in 1943 and officially recognised on 25 February 1944. [2] After the 2009 Black Saturday fires, the Marysville Police station was temporarily relocated in Buxton until the new station was opened in 2012. [3]