Information folder - Fires, Ash Wednesday, 1983

Physical description

Folder containing information pertaining to the Ash Wednesday fires, 16th February 1983. Contents:
-Typescript, Australian Insight program broadcast 13th January 1984, prepared by Jennifer King. Contains interviews with Alan Marks and Maggie & Martin Bishop.
-Typescript, "In The Shadow Of Ash Wednesday", prepared in 1983 by Selby CFA and detailing various problems encountered on Ash Wednesday.
-Typescript, "Ash Wednesday 16 February 1983", a memoir by George Harmon.
-Photocopy, "The Major Fires Originating 16 February 1983", detailing areas, casualties, damage, etc. Compiled by CFA, Victoria.
-Article "Protecting Houses From Bushfires" by Bruce Gifford, unknown source, dated summer 1987.
-Email, Peter Milton to Susan Heywood-Downard, "Extracts from Peter Milton's diary" dated 16 January [sic - should be February] to 2 March 1983.
-Typescript, part of oral history recorded with Margaret Douglas
-Age, 19th February 1983, death notices of people who died in Ash Wednesday fires
-typescript, "february 16th, 1983 in Victoria, Australia" account, unnamed
-letter attached to above typescript on 3AW headed paper, copy (?) of letter to station describing fires and thanking radio station for assistance.

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