Lake Mountain following the Black Saturday bushfires. Photo by Andrew Kneebone, Flickr
The devastation of Black Saturday gave researchers an unparalleled opportunity to come up with bushfire answers. By Martyn Pearce. The numbers that belong to Black Saturday are extraordinary, and horribly sobering. 173 people killed, more than 400 injured - many seriously. More than 2,000 homes lost, 400 individual fires, 78 towns affected, more than 7,000 people displaced. The unprecedented and severe fires began on a day where temperatures were in the mid-40s and were fanned by wind gusts reaching 90km an hour. They left a scar on the landscape of more than one million acres of the country.
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