Australia suffers bush fires, its version of the forest fire, almost every year because of its hot and dry summer. One of the first ever extensively recorded remains its largest today – the “Black Thursday” bush fires in 1851. These fires burned across more than 12 million acres of land in Victoria in southeast Australia. Because of a low population density, only a dozen people were killed – but more than 1 million sheep and thousands of cattle died.
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