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Facts And Statistics About The Black Saturday Fires
The Black Saturday Bushfires killed 173 people, injured 414 people, destroyed 2,100 homes and displaced 7,562 people
The energy that the black saturday bushfires released is equivalent to one thousand five hundred of the atomic bombs that struck Hiroshima
1,100,000 acres of land were burnt
There was over 5,000 fire fighters that fought
the fires on that day with some coming from New Zealand America and Australia
.
Only 1 Australian fire fighter was killed
Bush fires are predicted to become more common in Australia and other parts of the world because of global warming and climate change.
There were over 400 separate fires that led up to the event of black saturday
The temperature on the day was recorded around 47 degrease
There was 12 years of drought which led up to the fires.
There were flames that reached 100 meters high
Over 1,500 fire appliances were destroyed including one water dumping helicopter.
over 7000 people where left homeless
78 towns were impacted by the fires
an estimated 1,000,000 animals were killed
over $200,000,000 was raised for the victorian bush fire relief fund appeal.