Bushfires in Australia

[Tony Smith]

What we have seen here are just snapshots of various scenes and personal perspectives of the fire. The intervening time has allowed all aspects of the fire to be collated into a "Big Picture" of what went on, and the New South Wales Government have now released the findings of the official Inquiry: https://www.dpc.nsw.gov.au/publicati...hfire-inquiry/

It is a long and wordy read, but comprehensively addresses the issues.

This is just the examination of the bush fires that occurred in the state of NSW over the 2019/20 summer, and it is important to understand that there were also fires burning concurrently, and sometimes connecting, in the states of Queensland and Victoria. To put some perspective of the scale of devastation, JUST ONE of the NSW fires, the "Gospers Mountain" fire (the fire that burnt my property), burnt out 550,000 hectares (1.35mil acres), and that fire alone was only 10% of the total. In NSW alone, the fires burnt 5.5 million Ha, equivalent to the combined land area of Belgium and The Netherlands. Qld and Vic fires added more still, to 15mil Ha, or 1/6th the area of Ontario.

We have a lot to learn from this.