Kallora Fire - Revision history

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 '''Various interventions weakened the fire and a stand was made on Nairn Road by local people and the RAAF personnel and fire brigade, and the Kallora fire was finally extinguished.'''
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 The Calomba Store and Post Office, residence and sheds were completely destroyed.  The only persons in the building were Mrs Betty Howard and a young female assistant and they had to run and seek refuge in the paddock when the outer sheds burnt down and the house and store caught alight.
-'''The local people praised the efforts of a small squad of R.A.A.F. personnel from the No 6 RAAF Mallala Training Base who attended with their fire truck and vigorously fought the flames to save some houses and also the wheat stacks which held the district's harvest of 50,000 bags of grain.
+'''The local people praised the efforts of a small squad of R.A.A.F. personnel from the RAAF Mallala Training Base who attended with their fire truck and vigorously fought the flames to save some houses and also the wheat stacks which held the district's harvest of 50,000 bags of grain.
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-Memories of the January 1948 fire by Mrs Maureen Parker – niece of Mrs Alan Gale of Calomba
+Memories of the January 1948 fire by Mrs Maureen Parker – niece of Mrs Alan Gale, owner of the General Store and Post Office Calomba South Australia.
-'''On January 22nd 1948 on a very hot windy day, a fire started on the railway corridor near Kallora with a spark from the coal fired train'''.  Valerie Clark of Avon spotted the smoke about midday when taking the mail bags to Avon Station to place on the train. Everyone in the vicinity was alerted via the manual switchboard.  The fire quickly reached Long Plains and every available man was there trying to save the town including the men from Calomba.
+'''On January 22nd 1948 on a very hot windy day, a fire started on the railway corridor near Kallora with a spark from the coal fired train'''.  Valerie Clark of Avon spotted the smoke about midday when taking the mail bags from the Avon Post Office to the Avon Railway Station to place on the train. Everyone in the vicinity was alerted via the manual switchboard.  The fire quickly reached Long Plains and every available man was there trying to save the town including the men from Calomba.
 The Church of Christ building just out of the Long Plains township was razed to the ground.
 The fire raced to Calomba and 20 women and children sought safety in a fallow paddock while the flames passed around them.
-The Calomba Store and Post Office, residence and sheds were completely destroyed.  The only persons in the building were Mrs Betty Howard and a young female assistant who had to run and seek refuge in the paddock when the outer sheds burnt down and the house and store caught alight.
+The Calomba Store and Post Office, residence and sheds were completely destroyed.  The only persons in the building were Mrs Betty Howard and a young female assistant and they had to run and seek refuge in the paddock when the outer sheds burnt down and the house and store caught alight.
-'''The local people praised the efforts of a small squad of R.A.A.F. personnel from the Mallala Training Base who attended with their fire truck and vigorously fought the flames to save some houses and also the wheat stacks which held the district's harvest of 50,000 bags of grain.
+'''The local people praised the efforts of a small squad of R.A.A.F. personnel from the No 6 RAAF Mallala Training Base who attended with their fire truck and vigorously fought the flames to save some houses and also the wheat stacks which held the district's harvest of 50,000 bags of grain.
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 '''Various interventions weakened the fire and a stand was made on Nairn Road by local people and the RAAF personnel and fire brigade, and the Kallora fire was finally extinguished.'''
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 The Postal Department technicians were at the Calomba siding the next day and soon erected a very small shed to serve as a temporary post office.
-I have written about being on holiday at Pt Vincent with Uncle Allan Gale and the  Williams and Snow Bakers and Brosters at the time of the fire, and how the menfolk went home to see what damage was done when they heard about the fire.
+Mrs Maureen Parker continues" I have written about being on holiday at Pt Vincent with Uncle Allan Gale and the  Williams and Snow Bakers and Brosters at the time of the fire, and how the menfolk went home to see what damage was done when they heard about the fire.
-Also how Uncle Allan's dog led the horse and cow back to the farm several days later, no fences and blackened roads etc. so Uncle Allan was very proud of his dog. Glen Jenkin, my cousin saw the tank at the Calomba store boiling. There were other stories .
+Also how Uncle Allan's dog led the horse and cow back to the farm several days later, no fences and blackened roads etc. so Uncle Allan was very proud of his dog. Glen Jenkin, my cousin saw the tank at the Calomba store boiling. There were other stories ."
 In 1946 Mr John Howard and Mrs Elizabeth Howard (Jack and Betty) purchased the business and so began a period of ownership by the Howard family which lasted for twenty eight years.

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