Longreach Residential College

Australian Native Animal Pt1




Hundreds of lightning bolts rendered the sky, 13 bolts striking across the Australian Island of Kangaroo Island. These ignited the tinderbox of dry expanses 12 bushfires, and many of these joined and became four massive fires across the Island. This night was only the beginning of a catastrophy that would last for ten days and nine nights when it was brought under control by hundreds of fire fighters, planes, water bombers and emergency units which had come in from across Australia.