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Topic: 1967 Tasmanian fires

	Senator Christine Milne : Speeches+Transcripts
		The Tasmanian fires were the first time that such fires swept into the suburbs in a way that encroached almost on the heart of the city.
		Tasmanians faced with a large natural disaster or a disaster of any kind are incredibly generous, and at that time we were supported by the generosity of many people from the mainland.
		She said they thought it would be appropriate for the fire victims to be remembered in the federal parliament, as the 62 deaths represent the greatest number to perish as a result of a one-day natural disaster in Australian history.
	www.christinemilne.org.au /500_parliament_sub.php?deptItemID=134 (1692 words)

	Tasmania
		Tasmania was first inhabited by the Tasmanian Aborigine s, and evidence indicates their presence in the region, later to become an island, at least 35,000 years ago (rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago).
		They do have a team (the Tasmanian Devils) in the VFL (Victorian league), and a team in the national league is a popular topic among supporters as well as the state government (one of the potential sponsors of such a team).
		The endemic Tasmanian Emu was exterminated in the mid-1800s.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Tasmania (4172 words)

	Fire Reports
		Major droughts in Australia have often been accompanied by severe bushfires; for example the Black Friday fires of 1939, the 1967 Tasmanian fires and the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983 were all associated with drought.
		In Tasmania, fires burnt at St Marys on the east coast, Zeehan in the west and in the state's south at Bream Creek and Deep Bay.
		Fires destroyed at least 18 houses near Scamander where in excess of 17,500 hectares were burnt.
	www.fireprotection.org.nz /fire_reports.htm (918 words)

	Evacuating Response in Topanga: Emergency Preparedness, Fire Safety and Evacuation Guide For Topanga Canyon
		Once the inside of the building is alight the fire may continue to burn slowly, pre-heating the inside and contents until a window breaks, or the fire breaks through to the outside, venting the fire and resulting in very rapid or almost explosive combustion.
		Wendy Saunders, was engaged to ascertain from the residents directly affected by the fire, the extent of their preparedness to survive a bushfire and to gain an insight into how they behaved during the fire and the extent of their knowledge of what to do.
		Where adequate fire protection measures have been implemented, able bodied people are advised to remain in their homes during the passing of the fire front Exceptions are the aged, young children and incapacitated people.
	www.topangamessenger.com /ER.asp (4177 words)

	OnlineCrewing.com - Free Article / Library
		The 1967 Tasmanian fires were an Australian natural disaster which occurred on 7 February 1967, an event which became known as the Black Tuesday bushfires.
		The worst of the fires was the Hobart Fire, which encroached upon the city of Hobart.
		Interestingly, although this fire was by far the worst in terms of loss of life and property in Tasmanian history, the meteorological conditions are not totally uncommon there.
	www.onlinecrewing.com /article/sailor.php?q=1967 (585 words)

	2006-07 Australian bushfire season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fires commenced in north-east Victoria in early December.
		In Tasmania, fires burnt at St Marys on the east coast, Zeehan in the west and in the state's south at Bream Creek and Deep Bay.
		Fires destroyed at least 18 houses near Scamander where in excess of 17,500 hectares were burnt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2006_Eastern_New_South_Wales_bushfires (876 words)

	911 Fighter Fire Killed Photo
		"Fire on the Mountain" offers deeply moving insights into the lives of the smoke jumpers, hot shots, 911 fighter fire killed photo and helitacks who fight forest fires 911 fighter fire killed photo and put their own well being on the line as part of their jobs.
		James Braidwood (fire fighter) - James Braidwood (1800 - 1861) was the first director of the London fire brigade and is credited with the development of the modern fire service.
		Hobart Fire - The 1967 Hobart Fire was one of the 110 fire fronts that burned during the 1967 Tasmanian fires on 7 February 1967.
	ap50.meisart.com /911fighterfirekilledphoto.html (708 words)

	Tasmania
		All these factors contribute to the extremely diverse Tasmanian vegetation, from the heavily grazed grassland of the dry Midlands to the tall evergreen eucalypt forest, alpine heathlands and large areas of cool temperate rainforests and moorlands in the rest of the State.
		Tasmanian politics is often characterised as being overly concerned with personality and parochialism.
		As of 2005 the Tasmanian Devil population has been reduced by up to 80% in parts of Tasmania by the devil facial tumour disease, which is gradually spreading throughout the island.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/Tasmania (5623 words)

	The Cannonball Express
		The 1939 fires killed 71, 65 died in the 1967 Tasmanian fires, and 76 on Ash Wednesday 1983.
		Before and during the Sydney fires of 1994, the received wisdom was that (a) a catastrophe was about to happen and (b) that it did happen.
		Fire events and fire policies have to be scrutinized by many interest groups.
	www.canonbal.org /galli.html (1163 words)

	Fire threatens Hobart homes. 12/10/2006. ABC News Online
		Tasmanian fire officers say weather conditions are the worse since the 1967 bushfires.
		Tasmania's chief fire officer, John Gledhill, says today's weather conditions are the worst since the 1967 bushfires, which devastated parts of Hobart.
		A fire on Cape Barren Island continues to burn but the fire service says it is not threatening property.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200610/s1763040.htm (224 words)

	Tasmanian Times
		On the “fl Friday” of the yearly 1967 67 humans died, when the tasmanische capital kind of main header was met of one of these fires.
		Shrub fires are released usually by thunderbolt or sometimes also by volcanism and fulfill an important function in nature.
		Fires in Tasmanien (red marks): The largest smoke trail, to see in the northwest of the island, is approximately 50 kilometers long.
	tasmaniantimes.com /index.php/weblog/comments/tasmania-from-germany (2307 words)

	Welcome to willhodgman.com.au
		I attended a twilight ceremony for the dedication and unveiling of a Commemorative Wall in remembrance of the fires, which was arranged by the South Channel Ratepayers Association.
		Nicky and I took the kids, and whilst we arrived a little late at Middleton, it was a wonderful local event which concluded with a cheerful social gathering in the community hall.
		After talking with some locals who lost family and property in the fires, it is obvious their recollections of this horrifying disaster are still vivid, despite forty years passing.
	www.willhodgman.com.au /middleton.htm (270 words)

	Hindsight - 4 February 2007 - Black Tuesday
		In a terrifying five-hour period the bush fire came within 2kms of the centre of Hobart, while burning 264,270 hectares within a 150km radius of the city.
		In the aftermath, 110 fires were identified, 88 of which were deliberately lit as part of the summer burning off routine in Tasmania.
		After 1967, important changes were made to the Tasmanian Fire Service, to telecommunications systems and to the emergency service network.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/hindsight/stories/2007/1835380.htm (200 words)

	The nature of bushfires
		A small fire was burning just over the ACT border, and a camera crew and myself were sent there to provide some pictures for the evening news.
		The fire, at first, was burning on a wide but fairly static front on the far side of a steeply sloping valley.
		Fire raced along parks and gullies within sight of the Harbour Bridge and the city centre.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=63386 (824 words)

	Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal
		Indigenous Australians used controlled burning and fire management to encourage the growth of new plants and to prevent the growth of long grass which contributes to the tinder or fuel for bushfires.
		Fire stick farming used over tens of thousands of years created the fertile grazing plains west of the Blue Mountains.
		Of the 110 fires burning that morning, the worst was the Hobart fire.
	www.culture.gov.au /articles/naturaldisasters (2378 words)

	Natural disasters in Australia - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		On 7 February 1967, during a time of considerable drought, 264,270 hectares were burnt in southern Tasmania in the space of five hours.
		Of the 110 fires raging on that fateful morning, the worst was the Hobart fire.
		The fires resulted in the death of 62 people and the destruction of 1,400 dwellings and other buildings.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/naturaldisasters (1363 words)

	Mass extinction - New World Encyclopedia
		The impact of a sufficiently large asteroid or comet could create large tsunamis, global forest fires, and reduction of radiant light from the dust it puts in the atmosphere.
		The two main hypotheses concerning this extinction are: (1) the animals died off due to climate change (the retreat of the polar ice cap), and (2) the animals were exterminated as a result of human activity: the "prehistoric overkill hypothesis" (Martin 1967).
		Notable examples of modern extinctions of mammal fauna include the Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus); the Quagga (a zebra relative); the Dodo, the giant flightless pigeon of Mauritius; the Great Auk of islands in the north Atlantic; and the Passenger Pigeon of North America, which became extinct in 1914.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/Mass_extinction (7506 words)

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		A surface fire is the most common type and burns along the floor of a forest, moving slowly and killing or damaging trees.
		Three of the new large fires are in southern California and one each, in Colorado and Arizona.
		The Tasmanian Tiger (thylacine) was a striped carnivore with distinctive striped markings.
	www.angelfire.com /biz3/news/mhm93.html (2758 words)

	Bush Fires, part of gardening in Australia?
		In order to create a vista of a sheet of water stretching towards the Channel and Bruny Island and thus bringing the view closer to our garden, this was the motivation and now the wooded hills are burning fl.
		In 1967, half the island of Tasmania went up in flames, the capital city Hobart itself was threatened by many raging fires.
		Bush suburb houses were demolished as the fires rushed through the eucalyptus bush surrounds and invaded homes, public buildings, schools and churches.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tasmanian_gardening/33187 (599 words)

	Tasmania - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tasmania was first inhabited by the Tasmanian Aborigines, and evidence indicates their presence in the region, later to become an island, at least 35,000 years ago (rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago).
		The Tasmanian Tigers cricket team, which plays home games at Bellerive Oval on the eastern shore of the Derwent River, Hobart, represents the state in limited overs and first-class cricket competitions.
		However in the last few years Tasmanian cricketing quality has increased with them winning the ING One Day Cup in 2004/05 for the first time in 10 years.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Tasmania (4021 words)

	Culture clash
		For example, Travers writes that the early settlers would scarcely allow the Tasmanians to hinder their expansion since they would have heartily agreed with a Captain Betts that they 'may almost be said to form the connecting link between man and the monkey tribes'.
		Evolutionists believe that the Tasmanians migrated from mainland Australia on foot* when sea levels were lower during the Pleistocene Ice Age, at a time when mainland Aborigines had many things which the Tasmanians were not seen to have when Europeans arrived.
		The Tasmanians, having even fewer 'tools', and thus supposedly 'closer to the animal', were the most prized specimens.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v17/i3/culture.asp (1585 words)

	Australia
		In June a Tasmanian state coroner's inquest called for improved safety procedures after a prisoner's death in custody.
		In November and December, riots and fires occurred at the Woomera Detention Center resulting in property damage and injuries.
		Although workers cannot be fired for belonging to a union, laws permit individual employment contracts that override awards systems established through collective bargaining and impose complicated prestrike ballot requirements.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8249.htm (10619 words)

	Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center - Additional Page
		In addition, a fire risk assessment tool is included to help residents gauge the potential risk-factors that they and their homes face.
		Rancho Santa Fe FPD Fire Marshal Cliff Hunter explained that the concept of Shelter in Place communities originated 10-15 years ago with what was then new information, advocating the incorporation of fire prevention strategies into community design.
		Encouraging the local public to seek shelter from the fire within their homes has stirred controversy surrounding these certified communities, and has positioned community leaders against skeptics who remain unconvinced that Shelter in Place community planning will be successful.
	www.wildfirelessons.net /Additional.aspx?Page=97 (2422 words)

	TIME.com: Ash Wednesday -- Feb. 17, 1967 -- Page 1
		In fact, the fire wiped out three of the island's burgeoning industries: a brewery, a fish cannery and a carbide plant.
		An elderly man and his wife ran for their lives as the river of flame roared toward their house; the fire changed its course, and their bodies were found 100 yards from their untouched home.
		At least 52 Tasmanians died in the fire, and more than a thousand homes were destroyed; total damage was estimated at $500 million.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,839447,00.html (809 words)

	Arson fears over blaze \| Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania
		Tasmania Fire Service deputy chief Mike Brown said fire danger ratings were at near-record levels in many parts of the state's South-East yesterday and could be higher still today.
		In the old days it was always "the fire was believed to have been started by a discarded cigarette butt or a broken bottle" Unwittingly, or maybe even conciously they were discouraging arsonists.
		Publicising the fact a fire was started by arson does two things, firstly it gives gratification to the arsonist and secondly it encourages others to try and emulate the publicity gained by the arsonist.
	www.news.com.au /mercury/story/0,22884,20562461-921,00.html (664 words)

	Opium and the Hmong
		After being disposed of their traditional lands, many Hmong and other indigenous people of China took refuge in isolated mountains areas which were suitable only for slash and burn cultivation.
		By 1967, opium consumption had risen from 33 tons in 1798 to 3903 tons.
		To a great extend, the increase in the number of opium addicts during the first half of the 19th century could be attributed to the expansion of Chinese domestic opium poppy cultivation.
	www.poppies.ws /poppies/opium-and-the-hmong.html (2853 words)

	Report On The Activities
		SCC in their involvement with various reforestation projects in areas of arable land have failed to ensure that there is no loss of valuable crop varieties which might be of future use in breeding new high yielding or pest resistant varieties by initiating such an agricultural crop variety conservation programme.
		The sanction imposed was negligible, obliging SCC to replant 3 hectares of native forest.
		SCC did not replant all the native species destroyed in the fire as some of the native species were difficult to reproduce.
	latinamericasolidarity.freeservers.com /smurfit2.htm (17866 words)

	Vietnam on Film and Television: Documentaries in the Library of Congress: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and ...
		FBA 8837 The US Ambassador to Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, is queried on a number of topics, including the possibility of Chinese intervention in Vietnam, Hanoi's reaction to US peace proposals and the effects and repercussions of the bombing of Hanoi.
		FBA 8942 Traces "the anatomy of a peace move" by examining the newly revealed correspondences initiated by President Johnson with Ho Chi Minh regarding terms for peace in Vietnam.
		The film's intent, in revealing the life of the group over 97 days in 1967, is to reflect the "truths of the war as experienced by the foot soldier." FAREWELL TO FREEDOM.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/findaid/vietnam.html (14764 words)

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