Victoria bushfire 2006/2007
The 2006/2007 bushfires in Victoria , known as the Great Divide Fire Complex in Australia , began on December 1, 2006 in the northwest of the Great Dividing Range of Victoria and were not finally extinguished until February 7. 70 fires were caused by lightning strikes and formed into the largest bushfire in Victoria since the bushfire in Victoria in 1939 . The fires burned an area of more than 12,000 km² for 69 days before they could be finally extinguished.
In total, there was one death, 1,300 firefighters had to be treated for injuries during the operation, 41 houses were destroyed, hundreds of cattle were burned and kilometers of fences were destroyed. A total of 19,000 firefighters had been deployed since December 1, 2006.
Commentators at the time came to the opinion that bushfires of this type with this degree of destruction and duration should be regarded as the normal case in Victoria in the future due to the climate change, the drought and prevailing weather conditions . It was the longest burning bushfire in Victoria.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b proceedings.com.au (PDF; 360 kB): Graham Dwyer et al .: The 2006/07 Victorian Great Divide Fires: Building improvement th rough grounded theory , in English, accessed on December 8, 2011
- ↑ iprimus.com.au : The longest running Bushfires in Victoria's fire history , in English, accessed December 8, 2011
- ↑ oesc.vic.gov.au ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Emergency Management in Victoria: Great Divide Fires Contained After 69 Days , February 7, 2007, in English, accessed December 8, 2011
