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Temperature graph for Melbourne during the peak of the heatwave. A week before the fires, a significant heatwave affected southeastern Australia. From 28 to 30 January, Melbourne broke temperature records by experiencing three consecutive days above 43 °C (109 °F), with the temperature peaking at 45.1 °C (113.2 °F) on 30 January, the third hottest day in the city's history.
On 2 February 2009 a lightning strike from a thunderstorm in the area started a bushfire approximately ten kilometres from Barmedman, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service declared a Section 44 for the bushfire at 3am AEDT 3 February 2009. The fire burnt on private property and burnt approximately 320 hectares of scrub. [36] 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.
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.
Throughout mid-2009, the Victorian State Government has warned that the 2009–10 season has the potential to be "worse" than the 2008–09 season, however opponents suggest that this coming season has the same potential risk as several of the preceding seasons, but that increased awareness of the future bushfire season in general is a positive thing.
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.
An out-of-control bushfire burned close to properties in Bundoora, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, on December 30.A watch and act warning was issued for the blaze, authorities said, advising ...
106 Text Emergency Call is the Australian national textphone/TTY emergency telephone number. Police 101 is the police single non-emergency telephone number in the United Kingdom (UK) which automatically connects the caller to their local police force (with the option to select a different police force if required), in a similar manner to the ...