bushfires also swept through the eastern strzeleckis, the worst being on red tuesday 1898 when 50 homesteads were destroyed. the fires are dramatically illustrated by the paintings "the homestead saved" by james alfred turner and "gippsland, sunday night, february 20, 1898" by john campbell longstaff. other bushfires followed between 1899 and 1944, but the ranges largely escaped the black friday bushfires of 1939.