Fire Hydrants
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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Blue Mountains · Fires & bushfires
6 stories in Blue Mountains's papers
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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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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