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🕯️ 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

🕯️ 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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FILE FEB 1983 ASH WEDNESDAY BUSHFIRES MACEDON VICTORIA - BURNING...

FILE FEB 1983 ASH WEDNESDAY BUSHFIRES MACEDON VICTORIA - BURNING...

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Remembering the Ash Wednesday bushfires: 40 years on from one of Australia’s worst natural disaster

Remembering the Ash Wednesday bushfires: 40 years on from one of Australia’s worst natural disaster

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Ash Wednesday bushfires - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

Ash Wednesday bushfires - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

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

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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Ash Wednesday - 1983

Ash Wednesday - 1983

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Today marks 40 years since the tragic Ash Wednesday bushfires tore through Victoria and South Australia, one of the nation's worst blazes to date. #9Today | WATCH LIVE 5.30am | TODAY

Today marks 40 years since the tragic Ash Wednesday bushfires tore through Victoria and South Australia, one of the nation's worst blazes to date. #9Today | WATCH LIVE 5.30am | TODAY

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On February 16, 1983, Australia faced one of its darkest days with the Ash Wednesday Bushfires, a catastrophic event that left deep scars in Victoria and South Australia. In this poignant one-minute video, we explore the devastating impacts that claimed 75 lives, destroyed over 2,000 homes, and left thousands homeless. Fueled by extreme heat, strong winds, and drought, the fires ravaged more than 210,000 hectares in Victoria and 208,000 hectares in South Australia. Witness the heroic efforts of

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The Devastating Ash Wednesday Bushfire | Survivor | True Lives

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Ash Wednesday news montage

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Remembering Ash Wednesday – 40 years on from the deadly bushfires | 7NEWS - The Global Herald

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Cold front made Ash Wednesday bushfires worse and changed focus of research around them

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February 16 has been declared Bushfire Resilience Day across South Australia, with a service to honour those who lost their lives on Ash Wednesday - 40 years ago today. Rob Sandford was a volunteer on that devastating day, and says he remembers Ash Wednesday like it was yesterday. | ABC News

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40 years on, the trauma and tragedy of the Ash Wednesday bushfires still lingers. The CFA today held a memorial service to honour the 47 people who died when entire towns were almost wiped off the map. #9News | WATCH LIVE 6pm | 9 News Melbourne

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FLASHBACK: It is 40 years ago that South Australia was ravaged by the Ash Wednesday bushfires. 28 lives were lost and more than 300 homes were destroyed. One of the most remarkable broadcasts in the state's history aired in which the reporter feared for his own life. 7NEWS Adelaide at 6pm | 7news.link/Flashback #7NEWS | 7NEWS Adelaide

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Victoria is rallying to remember the victims of Ash Wednesday, on the 40th anniversary of the bushfire disaster. Survivors shared their stories, trading tales of heroism from that terrifying February day. 7NEWS at 6pm | More local news: www.7news.com.au/news/vic #7NEWS | 7NEWS Melbourne

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Today marks the anniversary of Ash Wednesday, one of Australia’s most tragic bushfires. #9News | 9 News

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1983 Melbourne Dust Storm, Ash Wednesday Bush Fire & VFL All Stars v Carlton at Coll v Foot games.

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Ash Wednesday-Mt Macedon (25th Anniversary)

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Ash Wednesday - 35 years on

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Ash Wednesday 30th Anniversary

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South Australia marks 40 years since Ash Wednesday bushfires

1983 Ash Wednesday Bushfires Channel 9 News Reports

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Liturgy | Ash Wednesday Bushfires (Short Edit)

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Ash Wednesday Bushfire, Otway region, 15 February 1983.

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Victims and survivors of Ash Wednesday bushfires honoured at memorial service

40 years ago today, 28 people in South Australia lost their lives in the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires. Report in 7NEWS Adelaide at 4pm and 6pm | www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS | 7NEWS Adelaide

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Today's conditions are eerily similar to those exactly 40 years ago when South Australia's deadliest bushfires claimed 28 lives. Since then, many lessons have been learned; Ash Wednesday changed the CFS, making firefighting units safer and more effective. 7NEWS Adelaide at 6pm | www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS | 7NEWS Adelaide

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Remembering Australia's Deadliest Bushfire: Ash Wednesday Disaster

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Amazing vision of the Ash Wednesday fires from the sky in 1983.

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