Fire
Lightning strikes on Thursday 6 December 2007 caused 63,433 hectares of Flinders Chase National Park to be burnt, before finally being contained on 16 December.
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Famous quotes containing the word fire:
“Prosecutors insist they are mounting a thorough investigation, which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The days at end and theres nowhere to go,
Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;
Get up and once again politely lying
Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Three things are never satisfied; four never say, Enough: Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever thirsty for water, and the fire that never says, Enough.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 30:15.