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Firefighters used aerial water bombing while the rural bush fire brigades fought them in the ground. However, the "Black Saturday" bushfires in Victoria officially lasted almost 5 weeks - from their beginning on 7 February to 12 March when Victorian authorities announced that the last of the worst bushfires which caused the most death and devastation were under control. However, smaller fires continued, controlled, for many months after that. There were so many fires that they could not all be extinguished. It was a matter of waiting for them ti simply burn themselves out.

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