The story of Australia's worst peacetime disaster On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster. 'Black Saturday' claimed 173 lives, left more than 7,000 homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bushland. One year on, this is the story of what happened Inside the Firestorm.Using never before seen footage, this documentary is a social record, a film that commemorates a catastrophe as seen through the eyes of those who were there.