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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1944

2,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 109

Most Bushfires Under Control Heavy Damage In N.S.W. Good "Saves" by 2000 FIGHTERS

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 5

ALTHOUGH bushfires have caused heavy losses in the outer districts of Cootamundra, Gundagai, Junee, Young, Wallendbeen, Kingsvale and…

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Most Bushfires Under Control Heavy Damage In N.S.W. Good "Saves" by 2000 FIGHTERS

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 5

ALTHOUGH bushfires have caused heavy losses in the outer districts of Cootamundra, Gundagai, Junee, Young, Wallendbeen, Kingsvale and…

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Most Bushfires Under Control Heavy Damage In N.S.W. Good "Saves" by 2000 FIGHTERS

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 5

ALTHOUGH bushfires hove caused heavy losses in the outer districts of Cootamundra, Gundagai, Junee, Young. Wallendbeen, Kingsvale and…

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Most Bushfires Under Control Heavy Damage In N.S.W. Good "Saves" by 2000 FIGHTERS

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 5

ALTHOUGH bushfires have caused heavy losses in the outer districts of Cootamundra, Gundagai, Junee, Young, Wallendheen, Kingsvale and…

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Most Bushfires Under Control Heavy Damage In N.S.W. Good "Saves" by 2000 FIGHTERS

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 5

ALTHOUGH bushfires hove caused heavy losses in the outer districts of Cootamundra, Gundagai, Junee, Young, Wallendbeen, Kingsvale and…

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Most Bushfires Under Control Heavy Damage In N.S.W. Good "Saves" by 2000 FIGHTERS

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 5

ALTHOUGH bushfires have caused heavy losses in the outer districts of Cootamundra, Gundagai, Junee, Young, Wallendbeen, Kingsvale and…

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Freak Effect of Bush Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. --Twelve pennies left on a shelf were melted when bushfires damaged a house at…

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Devastating Bush Fires Sweep Victoria Appalling Loss of Life and Stock Manpower Shortage Blamed by Fire Chief

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 1

The most disastrous bush fires that have yet been recorded in Australia last week swept large areas of Victoria, causing very serious loss of life and tremendous damage to property and stock…

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Soldiers Fighting Murringo Fires

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 3

More than 200 soldiers and 400 civilians are fighting a fire which has swept 40 square miles of country in the Murringo district, between Young and Boorowa. IT is the only bushfire of…

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Fighting Fires In 78th Year Fires Destroy 12,000 Miles Of Main Fences

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 5

Twelve thousand miles of main fencing was destroyed in the Victorian bushfires during the weekend, when 20 people lost their lives. First official estimates an…

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Relief To Fire Areas

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- The Cornportions of Australia drying off rapidly, the…

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Roses Amid Fire Ruins

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

Gutted by flames during the devastating bushfire at Beaumaris, Vic., this house presents a contrast to the…

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N.s.w. Bushfires

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 3

Great losses of stock, especially sheep, and considerable damage to outhouses and fences occurred through bushfires in New South Wales country districts…

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Bushfire Prevention

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 5

Sir,—Efficient fire breaks avert conf[?]agration. A striking value of fire breaks was demonstrated when a thunderstorm accompanied by…

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Bushfire Sweeps More Than 40 Sq. Miles New Outbreak in Young Zone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 8

A fire which swept an area of more than 40 square miles in the Murringo district, between Young and Boorowa, was the only bushfire of importance reported to be out of control in New South Wales last…

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Big Convoy Aids Bushfire Victims

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- In a convoy of 44 trucks and cars, which left Ballarat today for the bushfire-stricken stock…

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Bushfire's Spread To Town Of Young Feared

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

Freakish winds are threatening further destruction by bushfires in the Young district where an army of settlers has been fighting hard for three days. Six thousand sheep were lost…

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Truck Smash Starts Small Bushfire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 11

YOUNG, Wednesday. -- A five-ton truck which crashed into a tree a few miles from Young yesterday caused a small bushfire when the…

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Bush Fire Menaces Victorian Township

The Sun · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 5

Mirboo, a town in South Gippsland (Vic.)., is menaced by a bushfire raging in heavy timber in…

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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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