TY - BOOK AU - Franklin,Roger TI - Inferno: the Day Victoria Burned SN - 9781921778063 AV - SD421.34.A8 F73 2010 U1 - 363.3709945 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Docklands, Vic. PB - Slattery Media Group KW - Wildfires KW - Australia KW - Victoria KW - Forest fires KW - Fire weather KW - Natural disasters KW - Fire ecology KW - Rescue work KW - fast KW - History KW - 21st century N1 - 'Updated to include the final recommendations from the 2009-2010 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission'--Front cover; Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 ER -