Episode 111: The Black Saturday bushfires
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English - April 23, 2019 06:56 - 1 hour - 87.9 MB - ★★★★ - 723 ratingsHistory Society & Culture explosions history massshootings tornadoes volcanoes aviationaccidents disaster disasters earthquakes fires Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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All it would take was one spark. The southeastern Australian state of Victoria was dried out and temperatures were tipping into the high forties Celsius. In early February of 2009, the region could burn so very easily. Everyone knew February 7th was likely to be the day that summer Victoria burned.