A home in Kalamunda was completely gutted and several were damaged by flying embers.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam is a book by Cornell University historian Fredrik Logevall.
More recently Joanna has worked on the feature films - The World's End, Molly Moon, Cuban Fury, Sparks and Embers, StreetDance 2 and the new James Bond film Skyfall and can also be seen in an episode of the British TV series Misfits and Peep Show.
Sándor Márai, the author of Embers, lived in Posillipo between 1948 and 1952; his novel "San Gennaro vére" ("Blood of San Gennaro") is set in Naples.
Irish photographer Maeve Berry finds an aesthetic compromise by capturing the burning embers of bodies within the funeral crematorium.
In 2005, American rock band Of A Revolution released One Shot from their album Stories of a Stranger, which contains the lyrics "Rome is burning, you can taste the embers / I am walking hard on Spanish Steps".