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 Bushfires
A bushfire kills off the advancing rainforest species, allowing light to the forest floor, the young eucalypts grow quickly in the new light, by the time rainforest species start advancing again the young eucalypts hopefully are above canopy level, and so the cycle goes on.
Bushfires are that much a part of Australian climate that many tree species such as the Eucalyptus are fire resistant, others such as some of the Banksias actually require fire to open seed pods.
The Northern Territory is most at risk of bushfires at the end of the dry season in September and October when temperatures have risen, but monsoonal rains have not yet arrived.
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 Ash Wednesday fires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ash Wednesday fires were a series of bushfires which occurred on February 16, 1983 in south-east Australia, resulting in a natural disaster.
The Ash Wednesday fires are widely considered amongst the worst bushfire disasters in Australia’s history.
The summer bushfires of 1982/1983 razed approximately 5,200 km² (1,284,000 acres).
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The ashes are prepared by burning palm leaves from the previous year's Palm Sunday celebrations and mixing them with olive oil as a fixative.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, which lasts until the Easter Vigil.
On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 are permitted to consume only one full meal each day, which may be supplemented by two smaller meals, which together should not equal the full meal.
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 Ash Wednesday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The temperature was 43 degrees Celsius on Ash Wednesday.
The Ash Wednesday fires claimed 75 lives in total, 47 in Victoria and 28 in South Australia The largest number of lives were lost in the Upper Beaconsfield fire with 20 deaths.
Most of the major Ash Wednesday fires were controlled on the day, some in two to eight hours, others in a couple of days.
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 Ash Wednesday Bushfires - Web Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Ash Wednesday - 1983
Bushfires as severe as the Ash Wednesday fires appear to occur six to ten times a century.
The first big bushfire occurred on November 25, 1982, and was followed by large fires on December 3 and 13, January 8 and February 1.
The causes of the Ash Wednesday fires include clashing of electricity power lines, tree branches connecting with power lines, deliberately lit fires and other causes that were not identified.
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 Ash Wednesday Bushfires - Web Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Bushfire - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A bushfire is a wildfire that occurs in the forests, scrubs, woodlands or grasslands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia or elsewhere.
In the southeast, bushfires tend to be most common and most severe, during summer and autumn, in drought years, and particularly in El Niño years.
In the north, bushfires usually occur during winter (the dry season), and fire severity tends to be more associated with seasonal growth patterns.
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 Lessons learned from Ash Wednesday
His studies into the impact of the Ash Wednesday bushfires are some of the most cited disaster studies in the world.
Calamities like Ash Wednesday test society's capacity to act in a collective way to protect communities and to nurture those who are injured.
There is a tendency to think of bushfires in terms the enormity of the blaze, the struggle of containment, the number of properties burned, houses lost, and people killed and injured.
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 Ash Wednesday Bushfires - Web Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 News and Media Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To remember the 28 people who lost their lives during the Ash Wednesday II fires, including three SA Country Fire Service volunteers, a special memorial service will be held at the Mount Lofty Summit.
The Ash Wednesday II fires saw the largest number of volunteers called to duty from across Australia at the same time — an estimated 130,000 firefighters and support crew.
Families of bushfire victims, CFS volunteers, media and members of the public are invited to attend.
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 BushFires ClearlyExplained.Com
Bushfires are natural phenomena most common in Australia but also occur in many places around the world where there is plenty of wood, leaves or forest that can burn.
Bushfires continue to burn across Victoria as residents are on high alert.
Bushfires have caused damage including destroyed crops and burnt sheep near the NSW areas of Parkes which is close to one of the world's largest Radio Telescopes.
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 Ash Wednesday Bushfires - Web Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 ash wednesday bushfires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
VICTORIA could face another emergency on the scale of the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires as firefighters prepare for one of the driest summers on record.
Pam Chaplin and daughter Sandra escaped from this car in Upper Beaconsfield during the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983.
Another 47 were killed in Victoria during the Ash Wednesday fires.
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 Ash Wednesday Bushfires - Web Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Maps Of Ash Wednesday Areas Data, Information And Webpage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After the 1983 ash Wednesday bush fires, the state government consulted with a number of local maps of these areas can be found in the relevant.
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 Australians to be studied in Ash Wednesday follow-up
More than 1500 Australians who were children during the Ash Wednesday bushfires 20 years ago will be re-examined by researchers from the University of Adelaide as part of a world-first study into the impact of traumatic events.
The study is a 20-year follow-up to research conducted after the Ash Wednesday bushfires, which was among the first of its kind in Australia looking at the traumatic impact of natural disasters.
The new study will re-examine 809 adults who were exposed to the bushfires, and compare them to a control population of 735 adults who did not experience the bushfires.
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 Bushfires threaten Australian towns - Boston.com
Firefighters battling bushfires threatening numerous towns and communities in southern Australia on Thursday are now face a new risk -- severe thunderstorms with wind gusts of up to 68 miles per hour.
The blazes were the worst since Ash Wednesday bushfires claimed 75 lives in South Australia and Victoria in 1983.
In 2003, bushfires destroyed a slice of Australia three times the size of Britain, fueled by one of the worst droughts in a century.
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 Otway Coast and Ranges, Victoria.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fact it is generally accepted that the tallest flowering plant in the world is a Mountain Ash (Ecalyptus Grandis) located in one of the river valleys of the ranges, the Cumberland River particularly.
Summer temperatures on the coast are mild at 20-25C (68-77F), periods of hotter temperatures do occur such as those recorded during the Ash Wednesday bushfires.
ASH WEDNESDAY BUSHFIRES - The 16th February 1983 saw severe Bushfires across Victoria and South Australia.
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 Australian Events in the News
The Ash Wednesday bushfires hit South Australia and Victoria on 16 February 1983.
Ash Wednesday: Wednesday February 16, 1983, Melbourne, The Age; Adelaide: The Advertiser, 1983.
O’Connor, Pam and Brian O’Connor, Out of the ashes: the Ash Wednesday bushfires in the South East of SA, 16th February 1983, Mt Gambier, South Australia: P. and B. O’Connor, 1993.
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 Ash Wednesday Bushfires - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
The lack of moisture in the air contributed greatly to the severity of the fires.
Two hundred thousand tons of dry soil were lifted from the ground and the dust cloud was so large and thick that it blocked out the sun in Melbourne.
The Ash Wednesday fires claimed 75 lives in total, 47 in Victoria and 28 in South Australia.
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 Planet Ark : Authorities Race to Control Australian Bushfires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bushfires across southern Australia have so far burnt through more than 200,000 hectares (half a million acres), an area nearly three times the size of Singapore.
In Victoria, where two people were killed when their car was engulfed by fire on Sunday and a firefighter died when the tanker he was travelling in rolled late on Monday, emergency services worked overnight to save a small tourist town from the flames.
In 2003, bushfires destroyed a slice of Australia three times the size of Britain, fuelled by one of the worst droughts in a century.
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 Bushfire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A bushfire is a wildfire that occurs in the bush (collective term for forest, scrub, woodland or grassland of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia).
In southeast Australia, bushfires tend to be most common and most severe during summer and autumn, in drought years, and particularly in El Niño years.
In the southwest, similarly, bushfires occur in the summer dry season and severity is usually related to seasonal growth.
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 Ash Wednesday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Australian bushfires, see Ash Wednesday fires.
"Ash Wednesday" by Carl Spitzweg: the end of Carnival
The 1980 and 1983 Ash Wednesday Bushfires in Australia
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