Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Two fires continued to burn in January 2020. A fire in the Fingal Valley, in north-eastern Tasmania, started on 29 December, and a fire at Pelham, north of Hobart, started on 30 December. As of 16 January 2020 the Fingal fire had burnt over 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) and the Pelham fire over 2,100 hectares (5,200 acres). [259] [260]
A firefighter killed in a vehicle accident on 10 January near Tatong on the way to a fire near Mansfield in Victoria. [18] 2008–09 Australian bushfire season: 173 fatalities, 2,060 houses lost; 2 houses lost on 13 January at Port Lincoln in South Australia [19] 31 houses lost from 30 January to 1 February at Yinnar, Boolarra and Mirboo North ...
13 January 1939: Black Friday bushfires: Victoria 2,000,000 4,900,000 71 3,700 0 [5] 14 January – 14 February 1944 1944 Victorian bushfires: Victoria 1,000,000 2,500,000 15–20 approx. 500: 0 [10] 18 November 1944 1944 Blue Mountains bushfire New South Wales: 0 approx. 40: 0 [14] [15] November 1951 – January 1952 1951–52 bushfires ...
(as of 19 January 2020) [3] Cuddlee Creek South Australia Adelaide Hills Council: 20 December 2019 Declared safe 3 January 2020 23,295 hectares Ignited by power infrastructure 85 homes destroyed, 1 death 51 firefighters injured Dunns Road New South Wales Snowy Valleys Council [20] City of Wagga Wagga [21] 28 December 2019 Contained 2 February ...
January 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM ... according to data from the nation's weather forecaster. Australia's last two fire seasons have been quiet compared with the catastrophic 2019-2020 "Black Summer" of ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday battled an out-of-control bushfire near Western Australia's capital Perth, prompting authorities to urge residents in the fire's path to flee. More than 25 ...
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 ...