1965 Gippsland Bushfires

Bushfires in Victoria, Australia For many weeks between 16 February and late March 1965, major bushfires burnt across a wide landscape of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, from Lake Glenmaggie in the west to well beyond Bruthen and Tambo Crossing in the east.McHugh Peter https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2510902110/view 1965 Gippsland Bushfires : A reconstruction of events from February to March 1965 2020 Sale, Victoria : Peter McHugh EnglishMcHugh Peter https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2899074696/view Forests and Bushfire History of Victoria : A compilation of short stories 2020 978-0-6450631-0-3 Victoria Nearly one million acres of State forest and pasture were burnt.https://1965gippslandbushfires.com/ 1965 Gippsland Bushfires Eastman Joanne 2020 live https://web.archive.org/web/20211107165929/https://1965gippslandbushfires.com/ 2021-11-07 The Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) and Country Fire Authority (CFA) faced their gravest bushfire threat since Black Friday in 1939. There were many other bushfires across the state that summer, but the ones in Gippsland reached disastrous proportions, culminating in the declaration of a State of Emergency on 5 March when the Army and Air Force were called in to assist. References Category:Bushfires in Victoria (state) Category:Gippsland (region) Category:1965 disasters in Australia