SERIOUS BUSH FIRES
IN NORTH-EAST VICTORIA NINE LIVES LOST TWO MEN MISSING AND OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. WIDE EXTENT OF COUNTRY BURNED OUT. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The death roll in big areas of bush fires raging in North-East Victoria has risen to nine. Two men are missing. Nine others are in hospital, five in a critical condition, and two on the danger list. The fires, which broke out on Wednesday, are stated to be now , undei control, with hundreds of fire-fighters still patrolling danger points. About 20,000 acres of country have been burned., out. Haystacks, wheat sheds, fencing and livestock have been destroyed. It is believed that the damage will run into many thousands ol pounds. Gusty winds, which rapidly changed the direction ol the fires, made fire-fighting difficult and dangerous. All of the dead were fire-fighters who were trapped by the flames.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1943, Page 4
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