Red Tuesday

Red Tuesday

Infobox wildfire
title= Red Tuesday


caption= Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898 (John Longstaff)
location= South Gippsland, Victoria
date= February 1, 1898
time=
timezone=
acres= 260,000 hectares
source=
landuse=
fatalities= 12
injuries=
perps=
motive=

The Red Tuesday bushfires took place on February 1, 1898 in South Gippsland, Victoria. The bushfires claimed 12 lives, destroyed about 2,000 buildings [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Major Bushfires in Victoria | date= | publisher= | url =http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_wednesday_fires | work =Department of Sustainability and Environment | pages = | accessdate = | language = ] and affected about 15,000 people, leaving 2,500 homeless. [ cite web|url=http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/83edbd0553620d8cca256d09001fc8fd/270f8f5a1d4fa692ca256d3300057cd2?OpenDocument |title=South Gippsland, Victoria: Bushfires |accessdate=2008-05-24 |work=EMA Disasters Database |publisher=Australian Government ]

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