Tasmania's worst bushfires cost 62 lives

TASMANIA'S 'BLACK TUESDAY' BUSHFIRES

* February 7, 1967

* Tasmania's worst bushfire disaster (and at the time, Australia's worst)

* 62 people killed

* More than 900 people injured

* 1400 homes lost

* 110 fires blazed as temperatures hit 39C

* Fire index 'catastrophic'

* 264,000 hectares of land burned

* More than 62,000 head of livestock killed

* Entire communities destroyed

* Most of the damage was caused in a five-hour period

* Estimated damage in excess of $40 million (1967 value)

* Insurance claims totalling more than $10 million, which set an Australian record for payouts linked to a single event

* Hear survival stories at www.bushfirereadyneighbourhoods.tas.gov.au/67-bushfires-storymap