One year ago today, on 7 February 2009, Australia experienced its worst natural disaster when massive bushfires swept across the state of Victoria. 173 were killed.
This is my small memorial to those people who died, their grieving friends and families, the injured, the countless dead and injured animals, the firefighters, and the devastated small towns across the state which are still recovering.
Whoever forgets the past, that has no future.
ReplyDeleteWhat was a cause of the bush fire then?
ReplyDeleteThe fire fighter guys look like "Amargeddon"
It's a terrible fact that some of the fires were deliberately lit, even though the weather that day was horribly dangerous (47 degrees in Melbourne, windy, dry, no rain in weeks). Other fires that day started when a electricity power line fell down in the strong wind.
ReplyDeleteAustralians now need to think very carefully about how we can protect each other and ourselves in the next fires.