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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 ...
2015 Sampson Flat bushfires, South Australia: 32 houses lost, 125 outbuildings [33] [34] 2013–14 Australian bushfire season: 3 fatalities, 335 buildings lost; NASA image showing the Snowy River bushfire in Eastern Victoria at night in February 2014. The bushfire which lasted for 70 days grew to 165 800 ha and was roughly the same size as ...
13 February was a day of dangerous bushfires conditions, and a "Catastrophic" fire danger rating was issued for the Wimmera district for the first time since the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season. 3 fires broke out across the Grampians which impacted the towns of Dadswells Bridge, Bellfield, and Pomonal. 44 Homes were lost and five ...
But the 2019-20 Australian bushfire season occurred at a scale and intensity that is unprecedented according to wildlife ecologist Sarah Legge. [citation needed] During the 2019-2020 bushfires, 11 Australian bioregions, 17 major native vegetation groups were severely burnt. Also, up to 67%-83% of the globally significant rainforests and ...
The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, together with the Premier, Jay Weatherill, visited parts of the damaged area in the Adelaide Hills on 7 January 2015 and announced that victims of the bushfires shall be entitled to receive disaster recovery payments via Centrelink. The South Australian government also announced a relief package. [23]
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 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. This included 14 Country Fire Authority and three Country Fire Service personnel, all 17 were volunteer firefighters .