Tempered by Fire: Stories from the Firefighters and Survivors of the 1961 Western Australian Bushfires

Signed by Author. (Inscription) pp. xviii, 184 maps illusts First Edition #1119 Firefighters

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the disastrous 1961 fire season in Western Australia, the Bushfire Front has published an anthology of personal stories of the people who were involved at the time.

In early 1961, a series of bushfires burned in the south-west region of Western Australia.[1] The devastating fires burned large areas of forest in and around Dwellingup from 20 to 24 January, at Pemberton and in the Shannon River region between 11 and 15 February,[1] and in the Augusta-Margaret River area in early March. There were also major fires which burned in the Darling Scarp around Kalamunda. The towns of Dwellingup and Karridale were largely destroyed by the fires, as were a number of smaller railway and mill settlements. There was no loss of human life.