Bushfires in Australia
Firefighters cleaning up the ruins of a house demolished by the fireWhat is a bushfire?
A bushfire is essentially a blaze in a forrest. Some bushfires are deliberate in order to control the amount of flora in the area. Some are caused by accident, such as an unsupervised lit cigarette or an ember from a campfire, some are even deliberate, but to an arsenic extent, some people intend to start a massive bushfire for none other but to please him/herself. However, most bushfires caused naturally are usually by lightning strikes.
On this website, you will find:
-What the difference is between a natural hazard and a natural disaster.
-What the spatial distribution of bushfires are in Australia
-How is it formed and spread?
And also:
-A case study of a horrific bushfire disaster, the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfire.