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Festivals in Australia
Probably in per capita terms, the worst bush fire since the Europeans first arrived occurred on 'Black Thursday', on February 6, 1851
. About twelve people were killed in the fledging colony of Victoria (which had had only about seventy years of European settlement).The fire covered an area of 300 miles by 150 miles in southern Victoria. The smoke drifted across Bass Strait and conservative Christians in northern Tasmania thought that it was the end of the world and Jesus' Second Coming.
Victoria tended to have major bushfires every fifth, sixth or seventh years (the time taken for the fuel to build up). About fifty people were killed in February 1926 and twenty-eight people were killed in early 1932. On 'Black Friday' January 13, Jewelry On Sale 1939, seventy-one people were killed. Only with the 1939 Royal Commission did European Australians officially accept that they had to go about fighting bushfires differently from how they fought fires in Europe.
Other states, though not hit as hard as Victoria, have also had bushfires. For example, on February 7, 1967, a fire went through the suburbs of Hobart, Tasmania killing sixty-two people. During December 1993/ January 1994, there was the then largest fire-fighting effort in Australian history to deal with 800 fires across New South Wales (NSW).
Over 20,000 fire fighters were involved. Animals are always among the bushfire deaths. They cannot outrun the fires. In many other environmental tragedies, the apparent sixth sense of animals can often help save them. In China, for example, chickens suddenly jumping onto the roofs of rural homes often mean they can tell an earthquake is coming.
After the December 2004 Asian tsunami which killed about 20,000 people - Sri Lankan wildlife officials could not find any dead animals. Giant waves washed floodwaters up to two miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, home to Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. But no dead animals were located. They apparently could tell something bad had happened out at sea and so they fled inland.
Australia had a similar phenomenon on Christmas Day 1974. Cyclone Tracy struck the frontier Northern Territory city of Darwin, killing about sixty-five people. Birds and animals could sense Pandora Jewelry that something bad was on the way and so they fled. Indigenous people saw them go and so followed suit.
Most (if not all) of the deaths were among the minority white population who were busy celebrating Christmas. But the luck of the animals runs out in bushfires. They cannot outrun bushfires. For example at least one million sheep were killed on Black Thursday 1851. The sheer horror of the event is well captured in one of the country's best known paintings, named after the event, by William Strutt (now in the State Library of Victoria).
Festivals in Australia
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