SYDNEY (AP) — Survivors of one of Australia’s deadliest wildfires are to be awarded nearly 500 million Australian dollars in a class-action settlement reached Tuesday, the largest such compensation in the nation’s history.

The fire killed 119 people and was the biggest in a series of blazes that tore through the southern Australian state of Victoria in 2009.

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