Black Friday Bushfires 1939. Map of Victoria showing 1939 Bushfire area (coloured slide) · Creswick Campus Historical Collection The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were part of the devastating 1938-1939 bushfire season in Australia, which saw bushfires burning for the whole summer, and ash falling as far away as New Zealand The infernos had a momentous impact on Victoria's management of fire, leading to the establishment of the CFA.
Black Friday 1939 PROV from prov.vic.gov.au
These conditions fanned several fires - some of which had been burning since early December - into a massive fire front Many creeks and rivers had dried up and people living in Melbourne were on water restrictions
Black Friday 1939 PROV
The 1939 fires still represent the 'worst possible' conditions in a continent of fire The Black Friday fires Black Friday was the culmination of a long, dry and hot summer following years' long drought Fire swept over the mountain country in north-east Victoria, and along the coast in the south.
Black Friday 1939 PROV. The Black Friday bushfires - the culmination of a week-long inferno, the climax of a long summer. Black Friday 1939 The ferocity of the January 1939 bushfires was unlike anything Victoria had ever experienced at the time, claiming 71 lives and 2 million hectares of land
Australian bushfires Why 2019 fire season is different from others The Advertiser. It is the 14 th of January 1939 and fires are burning in almost every part of the State The infernos had a momentous impact on Victoria's management of fire, leading to the establishment of the CFA.