They will record plant species, forest structure, ash cover, soil properties, river sediment and the overall topography of the burned area.
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The fires burned near the docking area of the Carnival Triumph, he added.
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By Sunday, when government officials finally felt safe enough to see the destruction, homes, businesses and vehicles were burned throughout the area.
He said that at the moment the area was derelict and sometimes littered with burned-out cars and bike scramblers.
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The fire, in the Coonabarabran area, had burned through nearly 40, 000 hectares, Australian media reported.
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They burned down an electrical transformer station, leaving the area with no electricity for over a week, and then burned down a replacement station.
Upon looking at the burned up bodies the police abandoned the area immediately.
Last month, hooded men burned the house of another family in the area.
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We ford streams, some deep as Nell's knees, then head into a vast, newly burned area where dust covers our faces and the air still smells of ash.
The conflagration burned for three days, killing hundreds and destroying an area covering nearly four square miles, including over 18, 000 buildings.
In 1995, forest fires in Canada burned more than 17 million acres, an area half the size of Florida.
The Silverado Fire near Yountville, in Napa County, burned an even smaller area and was 75 percent contained.
In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.
That fire has burned nearly 2 square miles, and fire managers said it has the potential to grow much more in an area where logs are drier than pine boards from a lumber yard.
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