The Black Friday bushfires which swept across southeastern Australia in January 1939 have been remembered as a deadly and traumatic event. Most human deaths, however, occurred during the preceding ...

Imagine a forest engulfed in flames, the air thick with smoke, as trees crackle and fall. This is the terrifying reality of a wildfire—a fast-moving fire that spreads uncontrollably across ...

Residents living on the edge of the Grampians National Park, in the communities of Cavendish and Halls Gap, are being told to prepare for difficult days ahead.

Rochelle Schoff is researching drought and extreme weather with the Parched Research Project which is funded by an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative. Mandy Paul does not work ...

Unusually warm summer and lightning strikes had caused the fire. 6. 1939 Black Friday Bushfire (Australia) – 5 million acres This bushfire season in Australia’s Victoria engulfed more than 5 ...

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The Flashover exhibition at the University of Melbourne's LED Volume StudioAn innovative University of Melbourne multimedia project, which harnesses ...

A first responder for more than four decades, Bill Brennan traded his police badge for a fire hose almost ten years ago.

We don't have Ash Wednesday, we have Black January ... with little fuel was helping bushfire containment on the outskirts of the Grampians on Friday, but it was all dependant on the weather. " ...

To older Aussies, it refers to the day 71 people in Victoria tragically lost their lives in destructive bushfires in 1939. However, these days Black Friday is associated with the mega shopping ...

The pair were driving through the 'bushfire blackened landscape' when they suddenly saw something appear on the road ahead.