Fed: Toll from 2003 Canberra firestorm

AAP General News (Australia)
01-16-2004
Fed: Toll from 2003 Canberra firestorm

Destruction from the 2003 Canberra firestorm:

* Four dead - Alison Tener, 38, Douglas Fraser, 60, Peter Brooke, 74, Dorothy McGrath, 76

* More than 430 injuries - 46 serious

* 507 homes destroyed

* Damage bill exceeded $500 million

* 70 per cent of ACT's pasture, forests and nature parks severely damaged

A year on:

* 222 development applications lodged for 241 dwellings

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