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Remembering the Black Saturday bushfires, a decade later

Black Saturday
A Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, a bushfire at the Bunyip State Forest near the township of Tonimbuk Source: AAP Image/Andrew Brownbill

It's been 10 years since Victoria's deadly Black Saturday bushfires, which cost 173 lives and prompted a major shift in Australia's approach to firefighting. Some of those affected are reflecting on the nation's most costly fires.


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By Gloria Kalache, Peggy Giakoumelos, Mai Hoa

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It's been 10 years since Victoria's deadly Black Saturday bushfires, which cost 173 lives and prompted a major shift in Australia's approach to firefighting. Some of those affected are reflecting on the nation's most costly fires.



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