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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]
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 ...
[461] [462] Maps showing "hotspots" were spread online as comprehensive fire maps, giving an exaggerated impression of the extent of fires. [463] Photographs of previous Australian bushfires were also being wrongly published as current [464] and maps that exaggerate the extent of the fires, or include both past and present fires. [465]
Authorities have forecast the most destructive wildfire season during the approaching Southern Hemisphere summer in Australia’s populous southeast since the catastrophic Black Summer fires of ...
A Boeing 737 that was converted into a fire-fighting aircraft, crashed while conducting operations to control a fire near Hopetoun. While the plane was destroyed, the two pilots on board managed to walk away with only minor injuries. This was the first ever hull loss of a Boeing 737 to occur in Australia. [10]
2019–2020 Australian bushfire season Australia: 24,300,000–39,800,000 33 [7] [8] [9] 6 2023 Canadian wildfires Canada: 18,496,051 9 [10] 7 2021 Russia wildfires Russia: 7,800,000–16,100,000 0 [11] 8 2019 Siberia wildfires Russia: 7,800,000 0 [12] 9 2014 Northwest Territories fires Canada: 3,000,000 0 [13] 10 2020 California wildfires ...
Western Australia 800,000 2,000,000 0 0 0 11 pastoral stations (fences, watering systems, water points, stock feed) [citation needed] 2 – 9 January 2015 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires: South Australia 20,000 49,000 0 27 140 29 January – 20 February 2015 2015 O'Sullivan bushfire (Northcliffe – Windy Harbour) Western Australia 98,923 244,440 0 2 5
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 .