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Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

In 2009 bushfires swept across the state of Victoria in Australia. At the time it was the worst bushfire disaster the country had ever seen.

The forest fires of 2019-2020 in Australia were the worst the country had ever experienced - but ten years earlier Australia had a foretaste of that disaster when 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across the state of Victoria. At the time they were the worst fires Australia had ever seen. Rachael Gillman has been speaking to one of the firefighters who battled to bring the fires under control.

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