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COODE ISLAND FIRE VIDEO NOTES

D’Cruz, Shelton, ‘UP Deniliquin Goods Departs from Melbourne ‘. 7 January 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC9h4qGDoX4

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Garrett, Raymond W, ‘FOOTSCRAY & COOTE [i.e. Coode] ISLAND’. ca. 1920-1940. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/44432

Carson, Nick, “Before 1880.PNG’. Wikimedia Commons. 28 August 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Before_1880.PNG

Troedel, Charles, ‘Aboriginal people fishing and camping on Merri Creek’. 1865. Wikimedia Commons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Merri_Creek_Plenty_Ranges-Troedel.jpg

David Syme & Co, ‘The New West Melbourne Dock’. 1892. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/74145

Coode, John, ‘Melbourne Harbour Trust works of improvement recommended by Sir John Coode in his report of 17th. Feb. 1879’. Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners. 1879. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/157608

The Coode Canal, West Melbourne, under construction, West Melbourne MAR-109. c.1885. Royal Historical Society of Victoria. https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/online-exhibitions/the-yarra-changes/

Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, ‘Plan No. 23 Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works plan, scale 160 feet to 1 inch’. c.1895. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/166124

COODE ISLAND QUARANTINE STATION. (1915, July 3). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10419585

Gliding Club of Victoria, ‘The ‘Condor’ outside Larkins at Coode Island, Melbourne, Victoria’. National Library of Australia. 1929. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-144690265

Payens, Jim, ‘Negative - Aerial View of Coode Island, Yarraville & Spotwood, Victoria’. ca.1969. Museums Victoria. https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/2028135

Fowler, Lyle, ‘AMOCO storage facilities, Coode Island’. September 1962. State Library of Victoria. https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab80166/1/a44072

Payne, Jim, ‘Negative - Aerial View of Coode Island, West Melbourne’. 1969. Museums Victoria. https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/2028160

Hurley, Frank, ‘Port of Melbourne Fire Brigade, Melbourne, Victoria’. c1950s. National Library of Australia. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-157920085

Moss, Collin, ‘Toxic Inferno Sparks Crisis Talks’. 22 August 1991. The Age.

Department of Administrative Services, ‘Commonwealth Fire Board Annual Report 1991/1992’. Australian Government Publishing Service. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2141190740

Howard, Bruce, ‘Memories of the London Blitz were revived when a huge fire raced through the Coode Island chemical storage complex near Melbourne in 1991’. Herald and Weekly Times. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-148148964

Young, Leith, Tobin, Bruce, & Dixon, Robyn, ‘Black cloud smothers Melbourne from Coode Island fire’. The Age. 22 August 1991. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/from-the-archives-1991-black-cloud-smothers-melbourne-from-coode-island-fire-20200725-p55ffg.html

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 22 August 1991. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ8eEnE2CkA

Wind saves Melbourne from toxic exposure (1991, August 22). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 1. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122379182

Airservices Australia, ‘Airservices Assists With Bushfire Responses’. https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/airservices-assists-with-bushfire-response/

User:jarrodpm, ‘SES rescue truck’. 11 November 2009. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SES_Heavy_Rescue.jpg

User:Davidonformosa, ‘Taradale tanker’. 22 January 2012. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taradale_tanker.jpg

Royal Australian Air Force Association. https://raafa.org.au/adf-firefighter-scheme/

United Firefighters Union of Australia, ‘Coode Island Fire, Melbourne 1991’. 9 July 2019. https://ufuav.asn.au/coode-island-fire-melbourne-1991/

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, ‘Acrylonitrile’. 21 June 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/acrylonitrile/default.html

User:NadirSH, ‘Benzene geometrie’. 19 October 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benzene_geometrie_(2).svg

Messina, Alex & Browne, Ashley. ‘Blasts disabled safety systems, says fire chief’. 24 August 1991. The Age.

Porter, David, ‘Third big chemical fire in less than four years’. 29 November 1988. The Age.

Porter, David, ‘One chemical fire too many for the west’. 11 December 1991. The Age.

Victorian Greens, ‘Coode Island 20 Year Anniversary’. 22 August 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAYoeQBMq8

‘Coode Island Review’. 4 March 1992. The Age.

Dixon, Robyn, ‘New Coode sites named’. 3 February 1992. The Age.

Ansell, Kay, ‘The fire that still smoulders’. 21 August 1992. The Age.

Paul, David, ‘Masked lapwing’. Museums Victoria. Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Victoria. https://stateofthebays.vic.gov.au/sotb/chapter/mangroves-saltmarsh#image-9

‘Westerm Treatment Plant Bird Habitat’. Melbourne Water. 9 May 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIWMee-rbmQ

Porter, David, ‘Thumbs down for Coode Island alternatives’. 4 February 1992. The Age.

de la Rue, Andrew, ‘The Coode Island petrochemical storage facility’. 21 November 2017. The Age. https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/coode-island-disrupts-ethical-funds-restaurant-plans-20171121-gzq1kl.html

Bennett, Joe. ‘Coode Island’. 13 August 2005. Wikimedia Commons via Flickr. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coode_Island.jpg

Wien, Kent, ‘St Elmos 1’. 3 June 2011. Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyforfun/5792177852

Messina, Alex, ‘Day of reckoning dawns for Coode chemical inferno’. 17 June 1994. The Age.

Lieverdink, Peter, ‘Melbourne Weather’. 28 January 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArIUz7iN-4c

‘Out of control blaze burning at West Footscray’. Channel 9 News. 30 August 2018. https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/1035052336215810048

Messina, Alex, ‘Coroner finds valve was left off Coode tank’. 18 June 1994. The Age.

Learmonth, Pete. Firefighters Australia. Facbeook. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3398497883550816&set=pcb.3398498523550752

Pratt, Charles D, ‘LASCO Aircraft Factory, Coode Island, Vic’. ca.1924-ca.1939. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/20994