AustralianTimes

31 March 2014

BUS H F IR ES

THE GREAT
DIVIDE FIRES
2006-07
The war against bush fires have
become a raging battle, as
residents evacuation and costs pile
on the Victoria's fire department
bush

As the great divide fires resist the

outstanding efforts of fire fighters and
volunteers, various forms of injuries, deaths and

fires were thought to be the product

cost

of 70 consecutive lighting strikes across the state, as well as

pile onto the Victoria's fire depart, effecting both Victoria's

extremely dry weather conditions, unusually high

ecosystem and the Australia's economy. Being describe as

temperatures and strong winds. Burning and destroying

one of Australia's most extensive and longest continually

everything in its path, many small towns had to be

burning season, the great divide fires caused by 70

evacuated and many properties were lost. However after

consecutive light strikes that burned for 69 days across

69 days since the beginning the great divide complex, fire

fighters have announced that these fires have been

1,000,000 hectares of land.

contained.
Fire fighters and volunteers, front line defenders
Not only did fire fighters take the heat of the blazing

against the raging fires, took the majority of the impacts

suffered from the great dividing fire. With more than 1400

bush fires, but so did the Australia's ecosystems and wild

fire fighters injured by the 7 of February and 400

life. With more than the estimated 1,000,000 hectares of

volunteers to assist in medical treatment, these men who

burnt by the end of the season, the homes and lives of

had braved the fires, have protect society from these bush

many animals, were destroyed. Suffering from air

fires. Asking how the fire started, the fire department

pollution and being actually burnt alive in the fires, an

replayed that these

unknown amount of wild life were killed during the

terrifying blaze
As the bush fires burnt down homes and ecosystems,
the ecosystem were also affected by the raging bush fires.
Destroying hectares of farmland, dozens of various
infrastructure and medicare, the Australian economy take
upon a massive bill, to compensate for damage caused by
the bush fires to Victorian residents.