Unique Volunteer Corps Saved Vast Forests When war called the professional forest rangers, hundreds of city folk, all of them military rejects, volunteered to guard America's vast and valuable forests. These parsons, housewives, clerks and schoolteachers made a lot of mistakes at first, but they achieved their objective —they protected one of their country's greatest assets from the ravages of fire
The World's News · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 7
PUT a bunch of city people on lonely mountain peaks in the densest wilderness of continental United States and what happens?…
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The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 2
A CHANGE of wind direction last night saved the South Coast village of Wolumba from the menace of bushfires but has swung the flames towards the township of Bega, 13 miles away. An urgent call was sent out last night for 200 volunteers to cut a break ahead of the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 12
ADELAIDE, Sat. -- Twenty-five firemen from four brigades fought a fire at Torrenside Woollen Mills at midnight last night…
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The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 3
A RAAF officer was injured by exploding shells during a bushfire at Darra ammunition dump,…
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Truth · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 23
Fighting desperately, exhausted townsfolk yesterday brought under control at the last minute the bushfire which had…
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Truth · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 26
BRISBANE, Saturday.—Late tonight more than 200 fire fighters, mostly service personnel, conquered a bush fire which seriously menaced the big ammunition dump at Darra at which huge quantities of 500-lb. bombs are stored…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 8
Firemen were called to the Chicken Inn Cafe in Elizabeth Street, city, yesterday afternoon, when a large gas stove in which food was being cooked…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 7
BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Hundreds of airmen, naval ratings, and civilian police fought for six hours last night to prevent…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 4
CHUNGKING, Sunday (A.A.P.).--The Nationalist Government and Chinese Communist leaders have ordered a cease-fire in…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2
Grasshoppers, fleeing before mountain bushfires, are devastating market gardens and orchards in Mt. Bega district while the farmers are fighting day and night to prevent the fires…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 7
GRASSHOPPERS, fleeing before mountain bushfires, are devastating market gardens and orchards in Mt. Bega district while the farmers are fighting day and night to prevent…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 7
GRASSHOPPERS, fleeing before mountain bushfires, are devastating market gardens and orchards in Mt. Bega district while the farmers are fighting day and night to prevent…
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The Sun · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2
LONDON, Monday. -- "It is so cold this morning, that I do not feel like stirring from the fire," said Mrs. Ann…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 4
BRISBANE, Sunday.—After six hours' desperate battie, 200 airmen, naval ratings, and police last night stopped a raging fire from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1
The Weather Bureau last night issued a bushfire warning to every part of New South Wales. A change is on its way, the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 5
The Weather Bureau expects freshening northerly winds today to increase the bushfire danger. In the metropolitan area yesterday…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 5
A woman was critically burned and a fireman injured following the explosion of a primus stove in a small shop in New Canterbury Rd…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 2
A woman was critically burned and a fireman injured following the explosion of a primus stove in a small shop in New Canterbury Rd…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 5
A woman was critically burned and a fireman injured following the explosion of a primus stove in a small shop in New Canterbury Rd…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 5
A woman was critically burned and a fireman injured following the explosion of a primus stove in a small shop in New Canterbury Rd…
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