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HISTORICAL FACTS: Sa marks ash wednesday with resilience day | History Defined

SA firefighters will mark the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires with a Bushfire Resilience Day. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

South Australia's Country Fire Service has declared Thursday Bushfire Resilience Day to remember and honour lives lost to bushfires in the state and acknowledge the strength and resilience of those who survived.

The day coincides with the 40th anniversary of the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires in the Adelaide Hills and the state's southeast that claimed 28 lives and destroyed 383 homes.

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