Inferno : the Day Victoria Burned.
Docklands, Vic. : Slattery Media Group, 2010Edition: Updated edDescription: 266 pages [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781921778063
- 1921778067
- 2000-2099
- Wildfires -- Australia -- Victoria
- Forest fires -- Australia -- Victoria
- Fire weather -- Australia -- Victoria
- Natural disasters -- Australia -- Victoria
- Fire ecology -- Australia -- Victoria
- Rescue work -- Australia -- Victoria
- Fire ecology
- Fire weather
- Forest fires
- Natural disasters
- Rescue work
- Wildfires
- Victoria -- History -- 21st century
- Victoria
- 363.3709945 22
- SD421.34.A8 F73 2010
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'Updated to include the final recommendations from the 2009-2010 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission'--Front cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
The events of Black Saturday on February 7, 2009, produced the worst natural disaster Australia has ever seen. The extreme weather conditions, and the fact that the state was tinder dry from ongoing drought, created an inferno that caught many people by surprise by the very nature of its intensity and ferocity.