BUSHFIRES. Horror hits Victoria. Jan 31 1962. A saga of death, destruction, and driving courage. Dandenong fires were normal summer news when I was a kid growing up in Melbourne back then.

BUSHFIRES (1962, January 31). The Australian Women’s Weekly (1933 – 1982), p. 3. Retrieved January 8, 2020, fromhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51193494?searchTerm=dandenongs%20bushfires&searchLimits=# HEAT exhaustion […]

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Bushfires Sydney, October 29. 1951

Bushfires (1951, October 30). Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill, NSW : 1908; 1941 – 1954), p. 1. Retrieved November 11, […]

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WORST HEAT IN HISTORY ROASTS SYDNEY 14jan 1939 116deg.F =46.6667C

All records were swept aside in Sydney to-day by a scaring heat-wave from the west. After the hottest night in […]

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Worst Fire Danger (03 Feb. 1951)

Worst Fire Danger Victoria’s bushfire danger has never been greater in 35 years, the chief fire officer of the Country […]

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