Mounted Incendiarist Blamed For Victorian Forest Fires
Melbourne, January 26.—An incendiarist who is said to have ridden a horse through h Otway Range on Thursday setting the forest on fire is being sought…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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West Wyalong Fire Tragedy
West Wyalong, January 26.—Committing Lloyd Fleming (39), farm hand, for trial to the Central Criminal Court Sydney, on a charge of murder, the…
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MELBOURNE.—One large Victorian town and two villages are threatened by a forest fire which is blazing on a 20-mile front. They are Colac (population 6,000), Chapple…
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At a late hour last night the fire on Netley Station was still in chock but there were still plenty of smouldering stumps and trees about and though the position is more hopeful than it has been since the start of the fire a strong wind, or…
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Australia is by no means escaping bush fires this summer, despite a great year for rain in 1947—late into it at that…
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GRASS and scrub fires in this district are still under control, according to a report received today. Patrols are still being continued. The fire in the Kudgee area is…
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At 12.5 o'clock this afternoon the Central and South Fire Brigades attended a small rubbish fire at the rear of Welsh's garage at the…
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Hobart, January 27.—Two townships on the west coast of Tasmania are in danger of being wiped out in terrific bush and forest fires. Smoke from a…
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The South Fire Brigade answered a call to 41 Central Street yesterday about 7.43 p.m. to a chimney fire which was extinguished with buckets of water. No…
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A small chimney fire al 41 Central Street was extinguished by the South Fire Brigade at 7.43 p.m. yesterday with the use of buckets…
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MELBOURNE.—For the first time in a week Victoria is free from bush fire danger. Rain, which is expected today,…
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MELBOURNE. — Children playing with matches behind an oil store caused a fire which destroyed two shops, two…
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Sydney, January 27.—Burns Soutar of Haberfield, whose car was deliberately set alight early this morning, believes that he is the victim of a group of…
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Melbourne, January 27.—Police and officers of the Forestry Department have been ordered to track down "the galloping incendlarist" who is held…
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Melbourne, January 27.—Children playing with matches behind an oil store caused a fire which destroyed two shops, two dwellings, and two oil…
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The Netley fire is still under control, but is being constantly patrolled to prevent any further outbreak. There are still plenty of…
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Wellington (N.Z.), (AAP-Reuter), January 27—The Royal Commission info the tragic fire in Ballontyne's store in November when 41 lives were lost, began at Christchurch to-day. Mr. C. G. Watson, outlining the Crown case said the…
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FIRES in the Netley, Kudgee, and Back Well areas were stated today to be well under control, but…
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MELBOURNE. — Another big forest fire in Kennedy's Creek area of the Otway Ranges is believed to have been started by a…
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Wellington (AAP-Reuter), January 25.—The fire brigades part in the tragedy was detailed by Crown Counsel, Mr. Watson, when the inquiry into…
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