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Blue Mountains · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1910

6 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Fire Hydrants

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 26 February 1910 · page 8

Our Windsor contemporary devoted nearly half-a-column of its last issue to "a serious defect in some of the Council's work in burying the fire hydrants." In…

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Fire Alarm

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 10

Just as we were preparing for press, the fire bell pealed out, but it proved to be only a mild blaze. Mr J. Lewis was first to the reel, but when he found it…

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Wednesday's Shoot. Half-holidayers Under Fire

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 7

For the first time for many long months, the midweek half-holiday brigade put in an appearance on the local rifle range, several of the number joining…

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Fire Near the Falls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 14

It is not very often, fortunately, that Katoomba is troubled by the fire fiend, and it is therefore not surprising when such an unwelcome visitor makes its…

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Narrow Escape From Fire

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 9

A narrow escape from a serious fire occurred at Nurse Wardrope's place on Tuesday. It appears the inmates went to Sydney in the afternoon, and some…

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Fire Alarms

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 14

Over the week the town has been, startled on two occasions by the clang of the fire-bell, and on both occasions Captain Pannell and his merry men…

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