The 1994 eastern seaboard fires were significant Australian bushfires that occurred in New South Wales, Australia during the bushfire season of 1993–1994. Some 20,000 firefighters were deployed against some 800 fires throughout the state, and along the coast and ranges from Batemans Bay in the south to the Queensland border in the north, including populated areas of the city of Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Central Coast. The fires caused mass evacuations of many thousands of people, claimed four lives, destroyed some 225 homes and burned out 800,000 hectares (2,000,000 acres) of bushland.[1][2] The firefighting effort raised in response was one of the largest seen in Australian history.
- ^ NSW Rural Fire Service: Our History; www.rfs.nsw.gov.au
- ^ Twenty years on since the 1994 fires - Seven News Flashback; rfs.nsw.gov.au; 6 Jan 2014