Town's Close Fire Call Big Blaze Checked in Nick of Time
Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4
YOUNG, Thursday.--After 36 hours of battling en grass fire 20 miles wide, some 1200 civilians and soldiers saved the township of Murringo last night. They checked the blaze less than a mile away…
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Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4
YOUNG, Thursday.--After 36 hours off battling a grass fire 20 miles wide, some 1200 civilians and soldiers saved the township off Murringo last night. They checked the blaze less than a mile away…
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Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4
YOUNG, Thursday.--After 36 hours of battling a grass fire 20 miles wide, some 1200 civilians and soldiers saved the township of Murringo last night. They checked the blaze less than a mile away…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Army's Methods in Fighting Fires
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7
CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The Army had a scheme ready to meet a bushfire outbreak in New South Wales, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Township's Close Call in Fire Grass Blaze Checked A Mile Away 500 Men Succeed in Long Fight to Save Murringo
Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 5
AFTER 36 hours of battling a gross fire 20 miles wide, some 500 civilians and soldiers saved the township of Murringo last night. They checked the blaze less than a mile away…
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Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 5
AFTER 36 hours of battling a gross fire 20 miles wide, some 500 civilians and soldiers saved the township of Murringo last night. They checked the blaze less than a mile away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Township's Close Call in Fire Grass Blaze Checked A Mile Away 500 Men Succeed in Long Fight to Save Murringo
Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 5
AFTER 36 hours of battling a grass fire 20 miles wide, some 500 civilians and soldiers saved the township of Murringo last night. They checked the blaze less than a mile away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire at Cabra-vale
The Biz · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4
Cabramatta Fire Brigade was kept busy on Monday fighting grass fires from 10 a.m. to nightfall. Outbreaks occurred in Swan Road, Bold Street, near Gladstone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Compensation Scheme for Fire-fighters
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7
A scheme of compensation for bushfire fighters who suffer injury while combating fires is being considered by the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Menaces Township Near Young Stock Lost; Rich Lands Swept
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7
All day yesterday, fire-fighters fought to stem a bushfire which flared up in the Murringo area, between Young and Boorowa, and burned towards Murringo township…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7
A break burned by fire-fighters late last night saved the township of Murringo. The break checked a 20-mile wide grass fire less than a mile from the township…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stop Press New Outbreak of Bushfires. Melbourne, Thursday.--Mr
Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 12
boo North, one of South Gippsland's chief towns, is threatened by a fire burning through heavily-timbered country in the Morwell…
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The Land · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 1
HEAVY loss of human life, the destruction of hundreds of homes, upwards of a million sheep and enormous damage to farm and station improvements by bush fires in Victoria and parts of Southern New…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Friday.-- The 20th victim of the Victorian bushfires died today in Hamilton Hospital. She was Mrs. Agnes Ethel Godfrey (39), of Dunkeld. MRS. GODFREY was admitted to…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Friday.-- The 20th victim of the Victorian bushfires died today in Hamilton Hospital. She was Mrs. Agnes Ethel Godfrey (39), of Dunkeld. MRS. GODFREY was admitted to…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Friday.-- The 20th victim of the Victorian bushfires died today in Hamilton Hospital. She was Mrs. Agnes Ethel Godfrey (39), of Dunkeld. MRS. GODFREY was admitted to…
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The Sun · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- First reported to Melbourne by air patrols this afternoon, extensive fires are now raging between Gembrook and Pakenham on the Princes Highway; at least three houses having been…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Rising temperatures and the threat of a northerly wind is causing fresh concern in the…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Rising temperatures and the threat of a northerly wind is causing fresh concern in the…
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The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3
BUSHFIRES are taking a tremendous toll of property and stock in many parts of New South Wales and…
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