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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 113

Bushfire Drama in Victoria Wind Drives Blaze Towards Farms Tough Fight for Village

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A firefighter is thought to have been incinerated in a huge bushfire, which, fanned by a strong north wind, is rushing out of…

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Fire Sweeping on Vic. Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Hundreds of men, women and children are engaged in a desperate fight to control two fierce bushfires threatening the small township of Launching…

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Fire Sweeping on Vic. Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Hundreds ol men, women and children are engaged in a desperate fight to control two fierce bushfires threatening the small township of Launching…

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Fire Sweeping on Vic. Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Hundreds of men, women and children are engaged in a desperate fight to control two fierce bushfires threatening the small township of Launching…

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Fire Sweeping on Vic. Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- A firefighter is thought to have been incinerated in a huge bushfire, which, fanned by a strong north wind, is rushing out of control towards the…

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Fire Sweeping on Vic. Towns

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Hundreds of men, women and children are engaged in a desperate fight to control two fierce bushfires threatening the small township of Launching…

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Bushfires Ravage Vic. Hill Country

The Sun · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Six bushfires--all out of control--are sweeping the hill country in the Upper Yarra region from Lilydale and Woori Yallock to Old Warburton…

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Big Fire Threat Forest Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday. —A 40- mile- an- hour northerly wind to-day fanned burning rubbish…

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Fires Raging in Victorian Bush

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Two extensive and dangerous bush fires are raging in thick mountain ash timber country in the Warburton district, the chief fire protection officer of the Forest Commission…

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Fires Raging in Victorian Bush

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Two extensive and dangerous bush fires are raging in thick mountainash timber country in the Warburton district, the chief fire protection officer of the Forest Commission…

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Fires Raging in Victorian Bush

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Two extensive and dangerous bush fires are raging in thick mountainash timber country in the Warburton district, the chief fire protection officer of the Forest Commission…

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Fires Raging in Victorian Bush

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Two extensive and angerous bush fires are raging in thick mountainsh timber country in the Warburton district, the hief fire protection officer of the Forest Commission…

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Fires Still Raging in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --Extensive fires are still raging in rugged timber country in the Lilydale,…

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Fires Raging in Victorian Bush

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--'Two extensive and dangerous bush fires are raging in thick mountainash timber country in the Warburton district, the chief fire protection officer of the Forest Commission…

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Inquiry Into Bushfires Police Action On Serious Vic. Outbreaks

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Police are investigating the cause of many fires which, since last night, have burnt out thousands of acres of heavily…

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Ship's cargo on fire for second time MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 11 April 1948 · page 28

FOR the second time in a month fire broke out in a wool cargo on the 7000 ton freighter Pemba at…

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Losses In Victorian Bushfire

Truth · Sunday 11 April 1948 · page 32

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Sweeping through large tracts of mountain-ash timber country in the…

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Maniac in truck starts bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Victorian bushmen throughout today fought forest fires deliberately started last might by a firebug in a truck…

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Snowafter Bush Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Snow is expected on the Victorian Alps and the highlands, over parts of…

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Night fire patrol plan

The Sun · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 2

The Board of Fire Commissioners has applied to the State Industrial Commission for permission to institute a…

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