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A deranged pyrriscope, how fires across the world have grown weirder.

By Daniel Immerwaw, read by Chloe Massey and produced by Hatty Moeah.

The hundreds of bushfires that hit Southern Australia on the 7th of February 2009 felt,

according to witnesses, apocalyptic. It was already hellishly hot that day. 46.4 degrees

Celsius in Melbourne. As the fires erupted, day turned to night, flaming embers the size of pillows

rained down, burning birds fell from the trees, and the ash-filled air grew so hot that breathing it,

one survivor said, was like sucking on a hairdryer. More than 2,000 homes burned down, and 173 people

died. New South Wales's fire chief, visiting Melbourne days later, encountered shocked,

demoralized firefighters, racked by feelings of powerlessness.

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