Medical aspects of the 'Ash Wednesday bushfires'

In the Dandenong mountains, within 30 kilometres of Melbourne, natural bush and Eucalypt forest hide the homes and narrow roadways of townships which were destroyed in one of the worst series of fires in Victoria's history--the 'Ash Wednesday bushfires' on 16 February 1983. In this article the medical aspects of that holocaust are classified similarly to a counter disaster plan.