One year on, ABC News looks back at how Australia's Black Summer bushfire crisis unfolded | ABC News
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- It was a bushfire emergency on a size, scale and ferocity we have not witnessed in our lifetime.
33 people lost their lives and thousands of homes were destroyed in the fires.
An estimated three billion animals were killed or displaced.
See how ABC News reporters and crews followed the story of Australia's 2019/20 Black Summer crisis.
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I work as a full time fire fighter and was deployed to kangaroo island, much later in the season that the recorded time of this video.
Still so upsetting to see what Australia went through together.
Hope all are well and moving forward.
Thankyou for your service brother!
Thank you for helping with the fires even though I live in America my respect for you is insane thank you again for protecting Australia
cheers brother hope to see you n ya fellow fighters down the local n buy use a coldie❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It’s been a tough couple of years but Australia keeps battling on. We’re stronger together and we’re stronger today than we were in 2019.
Agreed. We have learned from this…
And the world keeps getting hotter. People are poorer. Resources are stretched. We’re worse off than we were 3 years ago and blind positivity won’t get us anywhere. This will happen again and it will be worse.
here we r 2023-2024 summer 🤞we never see anything like this again
here we are 30th December 2023 and absolutely NOTHING has been done to reduce the bushfire risk nor anything done to increase funding for our firefighters
One thing alot of people don't understand about how bad this fire season was is that alot of northern nsw and qld that burnt is sub tropical rainforest that either never burns or hasn't burned in over 60 years
thank you for share this very detail beauty video on black times have summer 2019 into 2020 as special thank you every Australia firefight in Australia Bush service and family for special help through times
I get emotional watching this and I wasn't even really affected😢
I remember when this happened, a friend of mine who lived there kept me updated and I remember bawling when I heard of how many animals were lost or badly injured that they had to be euthanized..it sucks..they didn’t know they should have evacuated..they didn’t stand a chance to escape like the majority of humans..
Well when governments gut the bushfire response, national park services, and ignore scientific warnings a decade ago this is what happens, but Scotty from marketing got away with it and Gladys is still knocking off koalas with impunity :(
I say we March on Canberra and those posh wankers and demand a government that works for us... Or we stage Australia's first revolution
July 2021: Now the whole world is either burning or flooding...
THANKYOU ALL SERVICES WHO HELPED SAVED AS MANY AND AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ❤❤❤❤❤
I luckily wasn’t affected by these fires but my godfather is a SES volunteer n he did goto these fires n he said his NEVER seen anything like it not in 30+ yrs as a volunteer
As Australians, we ars a tough bunch, but as tough as we are, were no match for things like this, all we can do is try our best to save as much as possible. The worst thing our prime minster did, was force people to shake his hand, all for a photo op, we dont expect him to physically help fight the fires, hes not a fire-fighter, but we do expect him to stay in the country to offer genuine support, but he couldn't even do that. He dragged his feet when it came to financial support, he had to be dragged kicking and screaming, just to help the volunteers who left their paid jobs, to help with the fire-fighting efforts, he said well they volunteered to do this, he just didnt get it.
This was a time i personally will never forget, driving through bushfire ravaged areas, just to get back to Qld, areas that had been burned, it looked like a war zone, i had to cut my holidays short, just so i could get get back home, and not be in the way.
21:15 start playing " i hope scott's house burns down by the chats"
Its amazing to see the responses of local leaders and parliament members. It is disgusting to see high level politicians going through on photo ops.
im a volley an they do it all the time an they just get in the way
Exactly, people like Scott Morrison, who had the audacity to come in and force people to shake his hands, even when they didn't want to. He fled the country to take his family on holidays whilst the country was burning whilst thousands of Australians were forced to cancel their holidays or cut them short, I was one of those forced to cut my holidays short to get out of the fire zones.
a BILLION animals.......holy Jesus!
Around 58 seconds in the video was that lazar beam?
One year on and nothing learnt again no action taken.
This is what happens when authorities openly ignore native fire management practices and instead apply European fire management practices to a uniquely un-European environment. Bravo more of this to come.
next 2 summers will be brutal
We actually couldn't complete our mitigation.The seasons are too short now due to global warming.The first fires started in July.We ceased our actions because of hot winds.Was too dangerous for us and surrounding properties.Never been so scared in my life.
Only thing money would be good for is building a 4 foot round pipeline from the ocean coming in from the north to the southeast area. Like a oversized sprinkler system and water pump system.
That lady left her horses in a pen ? Disgusting! At least set them free ! I would have NEVER left my horses - I’d ride them out first !!!!!
The fires that struck our nation, were in no doubt a repeatable scenario that will play out again.
As Australian's we must all have
felt the loses and frustration of our fellow country people who had suffered so appallingly user these frightful circumstances.
It is time that we examined the possible unorthodox methods that could be incorporated into a new way of fighting extreme fire's in our nation.
There are many ideas that can be implemented into our current understanding of the way in which we not only fight bushfires but understand fire's.
Ideas such as having new technological advancements systems such as new fire proof trucks,tanks, heatproof fire suits,new
and permanent aerial firefighting agency's.
Not only can we employ these new technologies but we must invest in mitagational technologies such as drone and up to date satellite observations.
We can prevent or mitagate these disasters and when these mega bushfire scenarios take place,we can be ready to fight fire's at the shortest
Possible notice as to prevent larger outbreaks from becoming what we saw in the black summer.
Just food for thought here ,because I
bealive we can stop this madness and all those who have lost so much can somehow rebuild their devastated lives and rebuild where their home is,where they belong,the
Place we all call home this amazing continent call Australia.
Also doing as much as possible to mitigate climate change. This is what it looks like for us all if we don’t
19:15 bruh what is this music
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I know
Nothing learnt and still ignoring how fire is to be used in Australia. Cold burns all year around not massive burn offs that get out of control as climate change make hot weather come earlier and earlier. I couldn’t breath the other week as burn offs sucked the air out of Sydney along with its massive number of SUVs stinking up the place and shitty public transport. We can do better.
I hope RAE HARVEY is doing well be stronge she rocks what a women .
We shouldve known this was a bad omen for 2020
I had a bad omen for 2020 on the first day. My town was nearly burnt down in a bushfire on the first of January
Please save australia jungle 🙏
The report says 1 billion animals.
The description says 3 billion?
Just goes to show all media facts are complete estimates.
1 billion killed, 2 billion displaced
But Oh Wise One, NO. The description says '"an estimated 3 billion animals were killed." Maybe if you could go and count them all, we could provide you with an exact figure.
@@KebabMusicLtd okay oh wise one. Still doesn’t make sense why the description is 3 and the report says 1....
@@dannymate1209 because the report is made earlier, and the description of the video is made after the fact, it could be that in the time between the event and the video upload that the counting of those numbers risen.
Good. I wait for love from you 💝💖
that was dope
How is that dope
This is the razor edge of science denial.
33 lives lost, 3 thousand homes lost, 3 billion animals, i see the number 3 getting repeated a lot.
Your point is?
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NWO
3 Lefties spew something and lie all the time....
I love Australians they are like cleaver Americans but they dress like the English people there kool . I once said to an American women in london where does KFC first come from she said i think it was newyork it might be florida .
I have friends who witnessed the army lighting up the fires with fire wands out their windows as well as personally witnessing loggers lighting up fires on a 38C degree day near Albury - there are people and corporations that should be held accountable for the devastation our country has suffered and the people of this country deserve to be able to reunite
Yes that's meant to keep you safe by burning the fuel that is in between you and the fire as to keep it from spreading further. Do research on prescribed fires before making dumb comments you clown.
We actually couldn't complete our mitigation.The seasons are too short now due to global warming.The first fires started in July.We ceased our actions because of hot winds.Was too dangerous for us and surrounding properties.Never been so scared in my life.
They could of been controlled burns, which are use to destroy the things that fuel large wildfires, don't be so quick to judge
Lucky was plenty toilet paper
OMG 😍💋 💝💖❤️
Can't watch another hurt koala 🐨 please sensor it children shouldnt see it but should know
They shouldn't censor the truth
Meh.
This will happen again in 2022,2023
@@taylormatthews6086 Yes it will
@@jakeyt8462 one day when the brush grows back after the rain. The country is so much greener than it was in2019
Aluminium fuelled fire . Nothing's growing back, the bush turned to carbon, Bega
Climate Change or Greens??
We actually couldn't complete our mitigation.The seasons are too short now due to global warming.The first fires started in July.We ceased our actions because of hot winds.Was too dangerous for us and surrounding properties.Never been so scared in my life.
Or the Coalition gutting fire services?
Greens? You're still clinging to that myth?
Green’s because they don’t believe in controlled burn’s because it affects insects and wildlife. I remember when Sydney were doing a controlled burn before these fires people complained about the smoke so they stopped the controlled burns a fire fighter friend told me this & he said himself the greens have no idea. If we had controlled burns every year like the Aborigines do this may not of been as bad. Look at the billions of insects/ wildlife that perished. The devastation of human loss and properties ALL because people winged about smoke 😡
how many snake get killed
Heaps of snakes. Many kangaroos. Kabillion jillions of ants.
I'm Alone 😍😥
Dont be alone
So am I. It's hard ay 😢
@@justsandra71 stay happy try to be happy focus on your goals set targets try to accomplish them sandra
@@justsandra71 you are beautiful in your onw way and you are the best
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Aww, thank you with much love ❤