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A specific example of a bush fire is the 2009 February 7th Victorian fires, known as Black Saturday. On Black Saturday there were more than 400 separate fires just in Victoria.
On Black Saturday there were many people that died. The police and firemen worked out there was 173 deaths and over 100 people who went to hospital with bad burns. There were over 4,000 firemen and women trying to stop it.
This image is a satellite photo of Victoria on Black Saturday.
On Black Saturday there were more than 2,030 houses burnt down and there was at least another 3,500 buildings burnt to the ground. There were many remarkable stories of when only the house was left standing yet everything else was burnt down. The fires effected 78 towns and left about 7,500 people homeless.
The effect that the fires had on the vegetation was that when it grew back it was very thick and hard to walk through. But where the fires had burnt very hot, it had even burnt the topsoil, which meant the grass couldn't grow back well because there was no soil for it to grow in. Also, if a fire burns really hot, it will burn and destroy the seeds in the bush, rather than burn and regenerate the seeds (some seeds need to be burnt to sprout again; this is why Aboriginal people burn their land, to make it regenerate each year.) This image bellow shows the fires in Victoria on black Saturday
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On Black Saturday there were many people that died. The police and firemen worked out there was 173 deaths and over 100 people who went to hospital with bad burns. There were over 4,000 firemen and women trying to stop it.
This image is a satellite photo of Victoria on Black Saturday.
On Black Saturday there were more than 2,030 houses burnt down and there was at least another 3,500 buildings burnt to the ground. There were many remarkable stories of when only the house was left standing yet everything else was burnt down. The fires effected 78 towns and left about 7,500 people homeless.
The effect that the fires had on the vegetation was that when it grew back it was very thick and hard to walk through. But where the fires had burnt very hot, it had even burnt the topsoil, which meant the grass couldn't grow back well because there was no soil for it to grow in. Also, if a fire burns really hot, it will burn and destroy the seeds in the bush, rather than burn and regenerate the seeds (some seeds need to be burnt to sprout again; this is why Aboriginal people burn their land, to make it regenerate each year.) This image bellow shows the fires in Victoria on black Saturday
249 words out of 150-250