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Chatsbury bushfire
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The Chatsbury/Bungonia Bushfire of 1965 was a series of bushfires that burned from March 5 to March 14, 1965. The fires destroyed the Southern Highlands, New South Wales villages of Tallong, Wingello, and most of the surrounding orchards.

The fire is thought to be ignited by a spark from a Chatsbury Station angle grinder. It quickly spread and covered 620,000 acres and destroyed the areas' livestock. It is thought to be the greatest disaster in the area.

Three people were killed. 28 homes were destroyed in Tallong, 31 in Wingello. The fire was eventually stopped (or burnt out) near Nowra on the South Coast.

Composition and Classification
The meteorite appeared to be brown and black, but the inside showed grey chondrules with flecks of metal within the meteorite. Before it separated on impact, the first fragment weighed 513g and the second fragment weighed 4,950g.

Cold Springs Fire
The Cold Springs Fire started July 12, 2008, eleven miles north of Trout Lake in Washington. It was contained and put out in August 2008.

The fire was started by lightning on July 12 and spread rapidly through heavy dead timber, eventually burning a total of 7,993 acres before full containment was reached on August 1. Of the area burned, 4,723 acres were in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, 1,623 on the Yakima Indian Reservation, 1,076 on land managed by the Washington Department of Natural Resources, and 307 on privately owned lands. At the peak of firefighting efforts, over 1,000 personnel were assigned to combat the blaze. In total, 1,037 firefighters from 33 units were needed to reach containment.

The fire neared Mount Adams as it spread 11 miles north of Trout Lake causing closings for several trails and camp grounds. Fire officials said it was the largest fire the area had received in decades, and the dangerous fire conditions allowed it to grow and spread quickly through dead trees and winds up to 25 mph. However, people were expecting a large fire and had been preparing so that no homes or people were threatened in the event. . Although no structures were burned, a 1909 historic guard station had to be wrapped in fire-retardant material.

1575 Valdivia earthquake
The 1575 Valdivia earthquake occurred in Valdivia, Chile. The earthquake led to the flood of Valdivia. It occurred at 14:30 local time on December 16, 1575. It had an estimated magnitude of 8.5 on the surface wave magnitude scale.

50 to 100 homes were destroyed and 1,221 people died in the event. The damage cost would be equivalent to $5 to 24 million dollars.

Pedro Mariño de Lobera, who was corregidor of Valdivia by that time, wrote that the waters of the river opened like the Red Sea, one part flowing upstream and one downstream. Mariño de Lobera also evacuated the city until the dam at Laguna de Anigua (nowadays Riñihue Lake) burst. At that moment he wrote that, while many Indians died, no Spaniards did, as the settlement of Valdivia was moved temporarily away from the riverside.

The effects of this earthquake are similar to the 1960 Valdivia earthquake that also caused ensuing Riñihuazo flooding. These similarities show that large earthquakes have a pattern that span over several centuries.