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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1944

2,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 109

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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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 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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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 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…

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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…

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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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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Break Stops Bushfire Mile From Township

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…

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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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Bush Fire Disasters A Solemn Warning To Prepare

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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20th Death in Vic. Fires Reported

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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20th Death in Vic. Fires Reported

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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20th Death in Vic. Fires Reported

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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3 Homes Burnt In New Vic. Fires

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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New Danger in Fire Areas

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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New Danger in Fire Areas

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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Bushfire Toll of Stock and Property

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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