Black Saturday Presentation
Slide 1: heading
Slide 2: The fires started when powerlines in Kilmore east collapsed starting what would be one of
the worst fires in Australia's history. The fire then rapidly travelled through a pine plantation and
crossed the Hume freeway. In the two weeks leading up to the catastrophe Melbourne was
experiencing extreme heat averaging up 43 degrees. There were also extreme winds up to 100kph.
Slide 3:
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Sadly, 1 firefighter was killed
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Flames reached 100m high
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Over 1 million animals were killed
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The energy that the black Saturday bushfires released is equivalent to one thousand five
hundred of the atomic bombs that struck Hiroshima
Slide 4: “Then this "Great Red Thing" hit us. The sky went black. There was a most incredible
screaming engine noise - like a massive jet engine roaring. It was like we imagine a nuclear explosion
to be like. Someone has since described it as a "fire tsunami".” This is how one of the people that
experienced black Saturday described as you can tell it was very traumatic.