🕯️ Ash Wednesday — We Remember Today we remember the 75 lives lost during the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983. 📅 16 February 1983 🔥 180 fires tore through Victoria and South Australia 💨 Winds reached 110 km/h, fast-moving, uncontrollable fire 🏠 3,700 buildings destroyed or damaged 🏡 2,545 families lost their homes 💰 4,540 insurance claims totaling $176 million (over $400 million total loss in 1983 values) 🚒 The emergency saw an extraordinary response, with around 130,000 fire
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Today marks Bushfire Resilience Day when we commemorate the toll that bushfires have taken on the people, property and environment of this state. February 16 is the anniversary of Ash Wednesday 1983, a day that changed our state and the CFS. This year is also the 20th anniversary of the Wangary fires on the Eyre Peninsula. Hear from the CFS Lower Eyre Group Officer Kym Eagle as he reflects upon what bushfire resilience means to him in the wake of the Wangary fires and his community’s long path t
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This week marks 40 years since the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires, a series of deadly blazes which tore through Victoria and South Australia in 1983 claiming the lives of 75 people and leaving thousands without homes. #9Today | WATCH LIVE 7am | TODAY
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