{"id":317,"date":"2019-09-19T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=317"},"modified":"2019-09-19T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:50:14","slug":"bushfires-29-jan-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"BUSHFIRES 29 Jan 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sydney, January 28.\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fires are still fiercely blazing in the hills surrounding Holbrook late tonight but the township itself was not<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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in danger unless the wind changes.<\/div>\n
Elsewhere in the Riverina and the South Coast the general bushfire position had improved.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The only danger spot according to a survey tonight appeared to be at Carabost, a small town 30 miles south east of Wagga. At Carabost flames formed a horseshoes shaped wall of fire around the town.Vol unteers were busy burning breaks tonight while other groups fought the blaze.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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All bushfires along the South Coast were reported tonight to be under control.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Death roll since the catastrophic fires started has reached eight while two men are still missing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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.The men are William Currie (45), single, of Rylestone, and Randolph Pettitt (31) of Canberra.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They disappeared while flghting fires at. Gulgong and Canberra. Search parties have been out all<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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day looking for them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hollbrook Shire Clerk (Mr. R.A. Roberts) said today that fires in the Holbrook area had caused\u00a0 about \u00a31,300.000 worth of damage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The damage included destruction of at least 500,000 acres, 26 homes, 60 per cent, of the areas Wool<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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sheds,about \u00a3250, 000 worth of fenclng and 10,000 head of cattle.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Surveying the damage to his property, one Holbrook grazier to day found the charred carcasses of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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400 head of cattle In one acre. It will be several months before a complete and accurate survey can<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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be carried out.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In Victoria<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Melbourne, -January 28. \u2014 All Victorian, bushfires are under control and should be out if the cool<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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weather lasts a few more days, a country fire authority reported to conditions expected during the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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next few days should, give fire fighters and farmers a well-earned respit from the fire threat.<\/div>\n
In many towns fire fighters and volunteers are resting following their almost sleepless vigil over the last<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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few days. However, a strict watch is being kept on controlled fires to prevent them getting away.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Armed groups of police and property owners were reported today to be ;seeking out and destroying pitifully burned sheep and cattle on blackened grazing land.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Cattle and sheep in the Corring Tinaldra district will be fed from a fodder pool to which local farmers are contributing.<\/div>\n
About 50 tons of lucerne hay and 500 bags of oats have been donated to the pool by Mr. fairbain, M.H.R.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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One of six men admitted to Walwa hospltal with serious burns is on the danger list.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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