Fires flared up again today in the far South Coast, destroying 10 homes in the small township of Wonboyn, about 20 miles south of Eden. Little could be learned of the extent of this fire late tonight, but several other homesteads and properties are believed to be endangered. Thousands of volunteers, smoke-blackened and without sleep for two days, have been separated into brigades and sent out to combat the fresh outbreaks.
Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 – 1954) 28 Jan 1952
Fires, which had been burning slowly in many areas over the past few weeks, were whipped up by the hot north-westerly on Friday morning last and became avenging monsters of red flames and choking smoke which hungrily devoured all before it and left in its wake smouldering ruins of houses, blackened trees and bare scorched earth which would bring tears to the eyes of the most hardened observer.
Friday, January 25, 1952 will live in the memories of our present generation as the day of the most devastating and destructive fires ever experienced on the Far South Coast Early in the morning a fierce hot north-west wind was in evidence and it soon became apparent that trouble was brewing for the coastal area.