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“A blazing furnace was in evidence, and flames a hundred feet high were seen. The sun appeared to set an hour before its time.”

1939 The Fires

January
06/01/39 | The Holidays [MC]
06/01/39 | Jamieson [MC]
07/01/39 | Healesville’s Holiday Visitors [HG]
07/01/39 | A Cheerful Outlook [WT]
07/01/39 | Worst Heat Wave in Country Since 1914 [SNP]

09/01/39 | Congregations offer special rain prayers [SNP]
09/01/39 | Bush Fire Destruction in Gippsland [SNP]
09/01/39 | Fire Fiend at Dromana [A]
09/01/39 | Trapped at Erica - Refugees in Township [A]
09/01/39 | Fierce Heat over State [A]

09/01/39 | Fish Dying - Stream Too Hot [A]
09/01/39 | Worst to come? [H]
10/01/39 | Shirt-Sleeved Scientists [SNP]
10/01/39 | Refugees at Erica [A]


 

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NSA   The Narracan Shire Advocate
SNP   The Sun News-Pictorial
WT   The Weekly Times
 
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