fire

Bushfires devastate large areas of Victoria and South Australia and kill seventy-one people.

One of the largest fire disasters in Australian history, the 1939 bushfires devastate large parts of Victoria.

New Zealand’s deadliest earthquake causes the death of 258 people in the Hawke’s Bay region.

Within four days, two-thirds of the city is destroyed and nearly one-hundred thousand people are homeless. Only nine deaths are recorded, but the real toll is likely much higher.

The fire ranks among the three largest forest fires ever recorded in North America.

The largest recorded bushfire in a populous region in Australian history.