| 词条 | 2002–03 Australian bushfire season |
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|title= 2002–03 Australian bushfire season |image= Bushfires Australia Jan 22 2003.jpg |caption= Satellite image of South-eastern Australia, showing the Eastern Victorian alpine fires on 22 January 2003 |location= Australia |date= Winter 2002 – Spring 2003 |time= |cause = Various, predominantly lightning |area = 21,241,000 ha |landuse = |structures= 41 houses |fatalities = 7 |injuries= Unknown |is_season = true |prev = 2001–02 Australian bushfire season |next = 2003–04 Australian bushfire season }} The 2002–03 Australian bushfire season was a particularly extensive bushfire season in Australia. It ran predominantly from December 2002 to March 2003 and involved over 3,000 separate fires in Victoria alone. The 2003 Canberra bushfires were also particularly severe. The developing drought in Australia and well below-average rainfall through winter and spring of 2002 established conditions conducive to above-average bushfire potential. During the 2002–03 season, there were 5,999 bushfires attended by the relevant agency Australia-wide and 7 fatalities, 4 of those from the January Canberra fires. Perhaps the most well known fire of the season was the Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires that burnt in north-eastern Victoria, the Victorian Alps and Gippsland. This fire was ignited in several locations by multiple lightning strikes and burnt 1.12 million hectares of land over the course of 2 months. Over 15,000 personnel were directly engaged with this fire complex.[1] OverviewWhile hundreds or thousands of individual fires burn in any given bushfire season, areas of large fires that join and split are referred to as 'fire complexes'. The major fire complexes included:
TimelineSeptember–November 2002The first fires of the 2002–03 season were reported in September 2002 in Victoria. Ongoing drought and lack of spring rain led to the Bureau of Meteorology predicting conditions comparable to that of the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires, and Fire Authorities were subsequently placed on high alert.[1] December 2002On 17 December, multiple lightning strikes in the Big Desert Wilderness Park ignited vegetation, creating a fire complex within the park south of Murrayville and burning until 25 December.[1] The Big Desert Fire was, at the time, the biggest fire in Victoria in 20 years, affecting 181,400 hectares of predominantly public land and requiring significant resources to contain.[1] January–March 2003On 6 January, lightning ignited a fire near Yambulla, north west of Genoa in East Gippsland. The fire was seen as posing a major threat, requiring significant firefighting resources. At the time the main fires started on 8 January, a total of 180 DSE firefighters were allocated to the Yambulla fire, supported by bulldozers and firebombing aircraft. The fire was contained within a few days. This level of resourcing did, however, decrease the local resources available to fight the multiple outbreaks that followed.[1] On 7 January, multiple lightning strikes in north-east Victoria and Gippsland started hundreds of fires in Victoria that would remain uncontained until 7 March, a full 2 months later. In early February, at the peak of the fires, around 3,760 people were involved in the fire effort, excluding local CFA brigades. This figure includes 160 Defence Force staff, over 300 interstate firefighters, 33 alpine firefighting specialists from New Zealand, and 35 personnel from the United States. In total, 15,725 personnel were directly engaged on the Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires.[1] AftermathIn October 2003, the DSE published a report on the 2002–03 fires, which was considered a formidable task as it had to document over 3,000 separate fires and all the effects and personnel involved. The report concluded that the responses and containment of the fires was commendable. No lives were lost, and stock losses and property damage was kept to a minimum considering the area of land affected by the fires.[1] StatisticsVictoria
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|title=Report of the Inquiry into the 2002–2003 Victorian Bushfires|url=http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/CA256D8000265E1A/page/Listing-Inquiry+into+the+2002-2003+Victorian+Bushfires-Report+of+the+Inquiry+into+the+2002-2003+Victorian+Bushfires+%28Released+14+October+2003%29!OpenDocument&1=10-Government+Initiatives~&2=20-Inquiry+into+the+2002-2003+Victorian+Bushfires~&3=40-Report+of+the+Inquiry+into+the+2002-2003+Victorian+Bushfires+%28Released+14+October+2003%29~|work=Department of Premier and Cabinet|publisher=State of Victoria|accessdate=28 December 2010|date=14 October 2003}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Bushfire history – Major bushfires in Victoria |publisher=Department of Sustainability and Environment |url=http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/fire-and-other-emergencies/major-bushfires-in-victoria |accessdate=16 January 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322102849/http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/fire-and-other-emergencies/major-bushfires-in-victoria |archivedate=22 March 2012 |df=dmy }}
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