Fire, deep set in timber structures and dense vegetation continued a remorseless attack in this Kambah backyard for more than an hour after the fire arrived from a nature reserve, [18 January 2003] [picture] / Jeff Cutting
- Bib ID:
- 3513571
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2003
- 1 photograph : col. ; image 17.8 x 27.4 cm., on sheet 21 x 29.8 cm.
- Series:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945- Blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Summary:
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"Kambah at 1725 hrs, 18:01:2003. Backyard gardens and structures in Millar Place Kambah continued to ignite from smouldering material and burn furiously more than an hour after the main fire arrived. The owner being at home saved the residence here"--Note from the photographer.
- Notes:
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- Title from caption list supplied by the photographer, see file NLA04/564.
- Part of the collection: A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149595525
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased 2005.
- Subject:
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- Forest fires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Kambah -- Photographs
- Wildfires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Kambah -- Photographs
- Natural disasters -- Australian Capital Territory -- Kambah -- Photographs
- Wooden fences -- Australian Capital Territory -- Kambah -- Photographs
- Kambah (A.C.T.) -- Photographs
- Kambah (A.C.T.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2003
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