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The Eyre Peninsula bushfire of 2005, an event also known locally as Black Tuesday [2] and by South Australian Government agencies as the Wangary bushfire, [3] was a bushfire that occurred during January 2005 on the lower part of the Eyre Peninsula, a significant part of South Australia's wheat belt, where most of the land is either cropped or grazed. [4]
1978 Western Australian bushfires Western Australia 114,000 280,000 2 0 6 [citation needed] December 1979 1979 Sydney bushfires New South Wales 5 28 0 [30] 3 November 1980 1980 Waterfall bushfire New South Wales 1,000,000 2,500,000 5 [e] 14 0 [31] 9 January 1983 Grays Point bushfire New South Wales 3 [f] 0 0 [32] 16 February 1983 Ash Wednesday ...
1984-85 Australian bushfire season: NSW in 1984-85, 3,500,000 hectares (8,600,000 acres) were burnt, four lives were lost, 40,000 livestock were killed and $40m damage to property was caused (RFS 2003a). 1982-1983 Australian bushfire season: The Ash Wednesday fires of 16 February 1983 caused severe damage in Victoria and South Australia. In ...
Years of severe drought and extreme weather combined to create one of Australia's worst fire days in a century. [5] The fires were the deadliest in Australian history until the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. 75 people died as a result of the fires; 47 in Victoria, and 28 in South Australia.
The fire began in a semi rural area to the north east of the city, in the locality of Sampson Flat.It later travelled southeast towards the Kersbrook township and across the Mount Lofty Ranges.As of 6 January 2015, at least 26 houses were destroyed with 37 families in temporary accommodation. [3]
The Cudlee Creek fire burned uncontrolled through the Adelaide Hills in South Australia on December 22 after earlier destroying at least two wineries in the district.The owners of the Tilbrook ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's southeast on Sunday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large swathes of New South Wales state. The ...
The 2023–24 Australian bushfire season [a] was the summer season of bushfires in Australia. The spring and summer outlook for the season prediction was for increased risk of fire for regions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. [2] [3]