Qualla: 2021 Beechina Bushfire https://qualla.com/2021-beechina-bushfire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: 2021 Beechina Bushfire https://qualla.com/2021-beechina-bushfire 2021 Beechina Bushfire: Introduction https://qualla.com/2021-beechina-bushfire/ Boxing Day in the Perth Hills is supposed to be languid. Families eat leftovers, children test new bicycles on quiet roads, and the bush hums with summer heat. On 26 December 2021, near the intersection of Old Northam Road and Government Road in Beechina, that calm shattered at 3:41 in the afternoon. A fire erupted less than five kilometers from where the devastating Wooroloo bushfire had torn through just ten months earlier, and it came with a cruel complication: Perth was simultaneously locked down for a COVID-19 outbreak.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/d/6/d/2021-beechina-bushfire-wp/qd6d-2021-beechina-bushfire-tinder-and-temperature.mp3 0:06 2 full 2021 Beechina Bushfire: A Fast-Moving Front https://qualla.com/2021-beechina-bushfire/ By early evening, 155 hectares were burning, the fire racing westward from its ignition point. Emergency warnings covered roughly 2,479 hectares, and residents were told to evacuate. An evacuation center opened at Mundaring Arena, while the Shire of Mundaring Animal Pound and the...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/d/6/d/2021-beechina-bushfire-wp/qd6d-2021-beechina-bushfire-a-fast-moving-front.mp3 0:06 3 full 2021 Beechina Bushfire: Containment and Loss https://qualla.com/2021-beechina-bushfire/ Overnight, the firefighters held the line. By dawn on 27 December, the fire was stationary with 100 crew members still in attendance. The emergency zone shrank to 760 hectares, though embers continued to threaten the Warrigal Estate and properties along Forge Drive and Anvil Way....

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/d/6/d/2021-beechina-bushfire-wp/qd6d-2021-beechina-bushfire-containment-and-loss.mp3 0:06 4 full 2021 Beechina Bushfire: Three Points of Fire https://qualla.com/2021-beechina-bushfire/ WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson delivered a detail that transformed the story from natural disaster to criminal investigation: the bushfire appeared to have three separate ignition points. The cause was treated as suspicious. For a community still raw from the Wooroloo fire t...

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