Forest Fire (6319 ha) in Australia 24 Dec 2024

Event summary

Forest fire can have a low humanitarian impact based on the burned area and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID WF 1023153
Countries: Australia
Start Date - Last detection*: 24 Dec 2024 - 01 Jan 2025
Duration (days): 8
People affected: 0 in the burned area
Burned area: 6319 ha
More Info: Global Wildfire Information System

*(Last detection of the thermal anomaly of the fire)

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Latest media headlines

Australia: Un’ondata di caldo aumenta il rischio di incendi boschivi n.. 1/4/2025 10:33:00 AM.

(AGENPARL) - Roma, 4 Gennaio 2025 Un’intensa ondata di caldo sta colpendo il sud-est dell’Australia, con temperature eccezionalmente alte che stanno alimentando il rischio di incendi boschivi. Le autorità dello stato di Victoria hanno emess
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Six Thousand Years of Controlled Burning, Up in Smoke? 1/3/2025 4:53:00 PM.

By disrupting millennia-old fire management practices, colonization created a deadly situation in Australian forests, but the jury is out on just how widespread “cultural burning” was. Cultural burning training is undertaken in New South W
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Counter-fires and tactical fires, the rebirth of an ancestral Cévennes.. 1/1/2025 11:36:00 AM.

Une technique très encadrée qui ne peut être pratiquée que par des pompiers spécifiquement formés. – Midi Libre. Le lieutenant-colonel Nicolas Coste a été l’artisan du renouveau de cette technique qui a failli disparaître. Il a formé au Vig
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Cronaca meteo. I principali eventi del 2024 avvenuti nel mondo 1/1/2025 9:03:00 AM.

siccità e alluvioni esasperate da un clima che cambia. Nel 2024 il mondo ha affrontato numerosi eventi meteorologici estremi. Le temperature record di quest''anno a livello globale hanno alimentato ondate di calore incessanti, siccità, ince
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (28), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JRC (1),