Updated: Sunday PM (pst) -The death toll – which has been climbing by the hour – now stands at 108 souls lost, over 700 homes destroyed.
Further updates at http://calfire.blogspot.com/2009/02/australia-wildfiresbushfires-are-now.html
Updated: 02-08-09 - Bushfire death toll
climbing to 100
Death toll from Australia's worst ever bushfires continues to grow, with 93 dead, 750 homes lost and whole towns wiped out. State of Victoria Hard-Hit Witnesses described seeing walls of flames four storeys high, trees exploding and the skies raining ash, as fires tore across 30000 hectares (115 sq miles) of Grasslands, forests, farmland and towns..Updated: 02-08-09 - At least 84 people were killed and entire towns razed in the worst wildfire disaster in Australian history
Updated: 65 dead and toll rising in Australian firestorms, Reports of whole towns burned over...
Wildfire Death toll of Australia's wildfires rises to 65 confirmed dead.
Nine major fires
Arson supected in a number of the fires.
This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite was captured on January 30. A large plume of smoke spreads southward from a fire (outlined in red) that appears to be burning in a small area of forest west of Churchill (a larger town near Boolara) in Victoria’s Gippsland region. The forest is dark green in contrast to the surrounding grass or cropland.
Photo taken on Feb. 8 shows the aftermath of a bushfires which started in Victoria state in south Australia
. The death toll from wildfires which have swept through southeastern Australia has climbed to 35
.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
“trees exploding and skies raining ash as some of the hottest temperatures on record combined with raging winds to create perfect conditions for uncontrollable blazes.”
CANBERRA, Feb. 8 - The death toll from which have swept through southeastern Australia has climbed to 35, Australian Associated Press reported Sunday.
Deputy police commissioner Kieran Walshe said Saturday that he believed arsonists were responsible for some of the nine major fires ripping across the Victoria state.
"We suspect a number of the fires have been deliberately lit," he said.
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| WUI Photo taken on Feb. 8 shows the aftermath of a bushfires which started in Victoria state in south Australia.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
Aus-emaps is mapping the bushfires. The red fire markers indicate fires reported in the last 12 hours
the yellow markers indicate fires reported 12-24 hours ago.
Possibly 40 dead as fires ravage in south Australia
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| A firetruck is seen as a bushfire approaches the town of Labertouche, 90km (56 miles) east of Melbourne, February 7, 2009. Aircraft dropped water bombs on raging Australian bush fires and homes went up in flames on Saturday as a once-in-a-century heatwave sent temperatures in Melbourne to their highest on record. Australian bush fires killed 14 people in the southern state of Victoria on Saturday, police and local media said.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
The latest bushfire started in East Kilmore, 80 kilometers north of Melbourne, and covered a huge area as it pushed 30 kilometers east to Kinglake through the small townships of Wandong, Strathewen and Clonbinane.
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