Australia's worst peacetime disaster, known as 'Black Saturday', occurred on February 7th, 2009, resulting in 173 deaths, over 7,000 people left homeless, and nearly half a million hectares of bushland destroyed in Victoria.
Inside the Firestorm
Australia's worst peacetime disaster, known as "Black Saturday", occurred on February 7, 2009, resulting in 173 fatalities, displacing over 7,000 people, and destroying nearly half a million hectares of land.