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The bushfires which started in Victoria and South Australia on Ash Wednesday, 16 February 1983, lasted for two days, until the 18th.
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When did the Ash Wednesday bushfires occur?
The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia started on 16 February 1983 which was, ironically, "Ash Wednesday" in the Christian calendar. That is why the fires are so named.The bushfires lasted for two days.
For how long did the Ash Wednesday bush fires burn?
it lasted about 4 days
What year was Ash Wednesday?
Ash Wednesday is actually a Christian commemoration which occurs every year, 40 days before Easter.However, if the question refers to the disastrous Ash Wednesday bushfires which occurred in Victoria and South Australia, ironically beginning on the real Ash Wednesday, this happened on 16 February 1983.
What was the loss of life during the Ash Wednesday bushfires?
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, which occurred in Australia's summer in 1983, killed a total of 75 people. This included 47 people in Victoria, among them seventeen volunteer firefighters, and another 28 people in South Australia.
What was the name given to the bushfires of Victoria and South Australia in 1983?
The name was the 'Ash Wednesday' bushfires. This was partially because of the ash which was strewn across SE Australia during the catastrophic fires. However, it coincided with the beginning of the season of Lent that year, the six week period before Easter. In the Christian calendar, the beginning day of Lent is known as "Ash Wednesday".
What year did ash Wednesday bushfires kill 72 people in Victoria and south australia?
To my calcultation the year was 1921 in the late 1000
How many pepple were kill Ash Wednesday?
There was no one killed on Ash Wednesday for a long time
What are the colors for AshWednesday?
Black and purple. black because that ash Wednesday also remembers bushfires and burning of palmfrones and purple the start of lent
What do you do with old palms from palm Sunday?
Most parishes collect them the Sunday before Ash Wednesday to burn. The ashes they distribute on Ash Wednesday are old, blessed, burned palms. As with any blessed item you can either burn them, bury them, or take them to your church.
In one town how many people died in ash Wednesday?
In Australia's Ash Wednesday bushfires of February 1983, the highest death toll in any one area was 21 people who were killed in the Belgrave Heights and Upper Beaconsfield areas, southeast of Melbourne.
How many people were killed in the Ash Wednesday fires?
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, which occurred in Australia's summer in 1983, killed a total of 75 people. This included 47 people in Victoria, among them seventeen volunteer firefighters, and another 28 people in South Australia.
How long does it take to put out a major fire like Ash Wednesday?
i think it took about 2 days to put ash wednesday out
