The Kilmore East blaze was the largest of the “Black Saturday” February 2009 fires in southern Victoria state that left 173 dead and razed more than 2,000 homes, the nation’s worst natural disaster of modern times.
Thousands of people joined an action blaming power company SP AusNet, which until January was majority-owned by Singapore Power, over the Kilmore inferno, which killed 119 people and caused an estimated Aus$1 billion in damage.
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