Deadly Wildfires Devastate Australia
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A Wall of Smoke
Country Fire Authority staff monitor a giant fire raging in Bunyip State Park. The last time Australia saw such horrific conditions was during the Ash Wednesday wildfires of 1983, which killed 75 people and razed 2,500 homes.
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