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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 ]
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.
1851 - 6 February "Black Thursday" (12 deaths) 1943 - 22 December (10 deaths) 1952 - January - March, Central Victoria (10 deaths) 1977 - 12 February, Western Victoria (8 deaths) 1965 - 17 January (7 deaths) Longwood, Northern Victoria; 1998 - 2 December (5 deaths) Linton, Western Victoria; 1985 - 14 January (3 deaths) Avoca, Central Victoria
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.
Stewart, Kath and Hawkins, Deidre Living with Fire: A brief history of fires in the Kinglake Ranges, Kinglake, Vic. Kinglake Historical Society, 2019 ISBN 9780987121783 O'Connor, Jane. "Without Warning: One woman's story of surviving Black Saturday", Prahan, Vic. Hardie Grant Books, 2010 ISBN 9781740668477
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The fire started at 11:42am and burnt at least 1,240 hectares. [7] [8] March 2019. On 1 March several fires were lit in the east of the state as the result of a band of dry lightning. [9] A bushfire in the Bunyip State Park destroyed 29 houses as well as 67 outbuildings and sheds over the following two days. [10]
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