to which houses are subject when hit by bushfire, fire engineers argued that standards should be based on a temperature. This was in line with existing New South Wales building laws for bushfire-prone areas, although the temperature of fires can actually peak at approximately . The Australian Building Codes Board incorporated the temperature in the standard, with the support of the CFA and Australasian Fire Authorities Council. Banning housing in highest risk areas As part of the building codes debate, an expert panel recommended in 2010 that the state government ban housing in the highest fire risk areas, which are some of the most dangerous in the world. Michael Buxton, a professor at RMIT University, said that after the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires the government bought back tens of thousands of lots across the Dandenong Ranges because they were in extremely high fire risk areas; he backed another similar large-scale buyback scheme to move people away from unacceptably high risk areas. Another member of the panel, international planning expert Roz Hansen, said that she was "disappointed and alarmed" about the decision to rebuild Marysville, stating that it was unlikely that a new development would have been permitted in the area. She went on to say that in parts of Asia, people had been forcibly moved out of unacceptably high risk cyclone and flooding areas in the public interest despite the difficulties this involved. Books on Black Saturday Bushfires See also Ash Wednesday bushfires Black Friday (1939) Black Saturday firestorm (Wildfire case study) Electric utility List of disasters in Australia by death toll List of major bushfires in Australia List of wildfires Recloser Sam the Koala 1967 Tasmanian fires 2008–09 Australian bushfire season 2019–20 Australian bushfire season References External links 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission website with transcripts exhibits submissions etc (very large file) Black Saturday bushfires on YouTube CFA Black Saturday video footage on YouTube The Age's image gallery The Herald Sun's interactive fire map State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about the Black Saturday fires. 2009 crimes in Australia Arson in Australia 2009 wildfires Bushfires in Victoria (Australia) Forests of Victoria (Australia) 2000s in Victoria (Australia) February 2009 events in Australia