We remember Ash Wednesday 35 years on. ANDREW RULE, ROY ECCLESTON, TONY HARRINGTON and PETER WEINIGER. First published in The Age on February 17, 1983. At least 34 people have died and about 600.. John's family are among thousands of people still haunted by the Ash Wednesday fires of February 16, 1983. The natural disaster made up of 180 different fires killed 75 people, destroyed more.
Ash Wednesday 1983
Ash Wednesday 1983
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A day of Total Fire Ban (TFB) was declared for Victoria at 06.30 am on Ash Wednesday 16 February 1983, and Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) crews were kept close to the depot at Trentham with the intent that everyone would be back in the yard by midday. Peter Brown was the Trentham District Forester and….. The fire destroyed about 50 homes, but more significantly, the area burnt on 1 February 1983 stopped the East Trentham fire as it made its deadly run up the slopes of Mount Macedon on Ash Wednesday. While in the far east of the State, and largely hidden from media view, FCV and CFA faced 2 large campaign bushfires over a 2-month period.
