{"id":785,"date":"2019-11-14T05:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=785"},"modified":"2019-11-14T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:06:00","slug":"bushfires-likely-26-oct-1948-the-bushfire-danger-at-present-is-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"BUSHFIRES LIKELY 26 Oct 1948. The bushfire danger at present is high."},"content":{"rendered":"

1948 ‘BUSHFIRES LIKELY’, The Scone Advocate (NSW : 1887 – 1954)<\/i>, 26 October, p. 1. , viewed 14 Nov 2019, https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/161561139?searchTerm=bushfires&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grass fires throughout the coastal area generally, and around Newcastle and Sydney in particu<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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lar, are a reminder that the seasonal risk of serious outbreaks is about to recur.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The warmer weather, unless accompanied by rain, will turn much grass and bush into tinder,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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in which a spark may prove disastrous.<\/div>\n
Despite all the regulations designed to prevent bush fires, and much effective propaganda,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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there are still many outbreaks attributed to nothing but wanton carelessness.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Everyone should remember that the glowing cigarette butt, a match dropped from a train or passing car, the embers of a pipe or a picnic fire can cause untold dam age.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Minute care in the handling or fire is a small price to pay for safety.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is particularly desirable that town and city dwellers, accustomed to take for granted urban<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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safeguards and preventives, should remember that in the country they are at this. time of the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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year dealing with inflamammable material and that there are no highly-organised firefight<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ing services to retrieve immediately acts of carelessness.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The bushfire danger at present is high.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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