Sat Feb 7, 2009,Australian bushfires have killed 35 people and burned hundreds of homes in the worst fire disaster in three decades, as a heat and strong winds sent sheets of flame racing through towns and farmland near Melbourne.
Police expect the death toll, already the worst since 75 people died in “Ash Wednesday” fires in 1983, could climb further as they search the ruins of wild fires that flared on Saturday and that continued to burn north of the city on Sunday.
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