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1994 Eastern seaboard fires: New South Wales 400,000 990,000 4 225 0 [35] 8 January 1997 Wooroloo bushfire Western Australia 10,500 26,000 0 16 0 [citation needed] 21 January 1997 Dandenongs bushfire Victoria 400 990 3 41 0 [36] 2 December 1997 Lithgow bushfire New South Wales 2 [g] 0 0 [36] 2 December 1997 Menai bushfire New South Wales 1 [h ...
On Saturday the 8th, the fire swept into the suburbs of Como and Jannali where more than 100 buildings would be destroyed, including two schools a church and a kindergarten. [7] [8] The Como/Jannali fire burnt 476 hectares and destroyed 101 houses - more than half of the total homes lost in New South Wales during the January emergency period. [9]
47 acres (19 ha) 1933 Griffith Park Fire: California Killed 29 firefighters and injured more than 150 people. [28] 1933 350,000 acres (140,000 ha) Tillamook Burn: Oregon 1935 35,000 acres (14,000 ha) Big Scrub Fire: Florida The fire spread at 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h), the fastest spreading fire in US Forest Service history. [37] 1937
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Landmarks in Sydney were shrouded in a smoky haze on November 12, as emergency-level bushfires burned on the northern coast of New South Wales in what state officials called a “catastrophic ...
Alfords Point residents have been victim to bushfires, perhaps the most infamous being those of the 1994 Eastern seaboard fires which claimed many homes in the area, particularly those directly neighbouring the Georges River National Park. Other recent bushfires in the area occurred in Summer 1997–98 and Summer 2001–2002, however, damage to ...
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July 19, 2024 at 5:56 PM ... Gov. Tina Kotek acknowledged at a Friday news conference. ... At least 12 of the state’s largest fires this year were human-caused — including the 114,000-acre ...