AUSTRALIAN FIRES
WATTLE COUNTRY SWEPT. A DEVASTATING OUTBREAK. (Pre»» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, February 11. (Received Feb. 11, at 11. p.m.) A bush fire which broke out nr. the Kangaroo grounds in the Dandenong Ranges swept the whole of the wattle country embracing Warrnndyte. The Federal timber mills 18 miles from . arburton were destroyed. Every available man in the district, is engaged fighting the tire, which is now advancing on a village north of Croydon, at the foot of Mount Dandcnong. FURTHER OUTBREAKS. GRASS FIRES IN SUNBURT DISTRICT. MELBOURNE, February 11. (Received Feb. 11, at 11.30 p.m.) Further bush fires are reported from Bacchus Marsh, and fears are expressed that the flames may reach the Grampians, whore the country is heavily wooded. Forty men have been sent from the naval base at Crib Point to fight the flames at Rcdhill. where the railway station is surrounded. The largest grass fires for years are reported from Sunbury, and are still spreading. Several homes are threatened. The fire is raging fiercely towards Queenstown, and urgent messages to the Heidelberg tire brigade stated that if help ■was not forthcoming immediately the town would be wiped out.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20022, 12 February 1927, Page 12
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