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ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
DATE: 1940

The original photograph of this edited and colourised picture was taken in 1940 by the Advertiser Newspapers Ltd and is called "Fire at Dunlop Perdriau" (B 7798/202). The image is from the State Library of South Australia, Album Collection. The unedited black and white picture can be found in the comments or the link below.

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+7798/202

The library provides the following summary, "Adelaide Fire Brigade personnel fighting the fire at Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Company at 103-107 Flinders Street, Adelaide. October 1940."

A link to a Trove News article, dated Monday, 21 October 1940, regarding the fire, can be found below (with the same photo).

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132001277?searchTerm=fire%20at%20Dunlop%20Perdriau%20Rubber%20Company

Sources: Thanks to the State Library of South Australia and Trove

Edited and colourised by A Colourful History

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10/02/2023

Multiple CFS crews, Farm Fire Units, fire bombing aircraft and our Victorian neighbours from the Country Fire Authority are currently on scene at a grass fire at Hynam, in the South East of the state.

Crews are actively working the fire.

For more information about the status of fire, see the CFS website at:
https://www.cfs.sa.gov.au/home/

Thanks Bill Corcoran for the photo

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15/01/2023

And while the Montacute fire kept many crews busy, there was another fire at Hawthordene this afternoon.

Ground crews, with assistance from firebombing aircraft were able to get on top of this fire before it spread too far.

Thanks Belair Country Fire Service for the photo.

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