Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories by Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh

Author:Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh [Marsh, Bill ‘Swampy’]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2021-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Note: During November 2010, thousands of Queenslanders had to be evacuated due to flooding. The floods were caused by a complex weather pattern that was formed when Tropical Cyclone Tasha joined in with a La Niña trough. It caused flooding around Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gympie, Emerald, Dalby, Roma and Ipswich. Catchment areas along the Bremer River, the Wivenhoe Dam, the Lockyer Creek – where twenty-three people were drowned – and the Brisbane River overflowed, causing floodwaters to rip through Ipswich and flow into suburbs of Brisbane. Over ninety towns and more than two hundred thousand people were impacted, as was a huge amount of property, wildlife and livestock. Infrastructure was also badly affected, with nineteen thousand kilometres of roads and approximately a third of the state’s rail network being damaged.

The estimated total damage bill was between five and six billion dollars.

Near on fifty-five thousand registered volunteers helped during the flooding and the post-flooding clean-up effort.

Thirty-five deaths have been attributed to the disaster.

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