April 2019
Australia’s colonial historical past is dotted with fires so monumental they’ve their very own names. The worst, Black Saturday, struck the state of Victoria on February 7, 2009. Fifteen separate fires scorched the state over simply two days, killing 173 individuals.
Whereas Australia is infamous for spectacular blazes, it truly ranks under the US, Indonesia, Canada, Portugal, and Spain in relation to the financial injury attributable to wildfires over the previous century.
That’s as a result of whereas different nations argue about one of the best ways to deal with the difficulty, the horrors of Black Saturday led Australia to drastically change its response—one of many greatest of which was additionally some of the primary: taking one other take a look at the best way hearth threat is rated. Learn the complete story.
—Bianca Nogrady
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