Hazelbrook Fire (To the Editor)
Sir,--Will you permit me, per medium of your valuable columns, to publicly thank all residents of Hazelbrook, also the Mayor of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
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Current Topics Fire Sale Starts To-day
As an outcome of the outbreak of fire at Bloomfleld's, 50 Katoomba Street a few weeks ago, a sale of slightly damaged goods (by smoke)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Digger's Home Destroyed Fire at Wentworth Falls
On Monday evening, the six-roomed cottage occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hook and their four children, at The Crescent…
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The Brigade was called to a bushfire near Victoria Street on Tuesday morning and a further call was received to Lone Pine Avenue,…
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The Katoomba brigade was called out to a scrub fire in the vicinity of Twyliam Street, Katoomba, at noon on Tuesday, and as the the was only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cottage Razed Fire in Height of Gale
A weatherboard cottage and contents, in Fitzgerald Street, Katoomba, owned by Mrs. S. Gotwald, was razed to the ground by fire on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blackheath News Enjoy Our Fires
The Blackheath Fire Station was again the rendezvous of many card players on Tuesday, 24th August. The ladies' prize was won by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Medlow Bath News Cottage Gutted Early Morning Blaze
Residents of Medlow Bath near the station were awakened about 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning by the shrill and continuous blasting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Garage Fire Attendant Burnt
Thomas Burton, proprietor of the Main Garage, Bathurst Road, Katoomba, was burned on the arms, when a quantity of petrol caught…
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The similarity between petrol and water almost spelt disaster For Thomas Morley, proprietor of the Main Garage, of Main Street, Katoomba, on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Buried with Full Honours Fire Officer "Jock" Howie
Full Fire 'Brigade Honors were accorded at the funeral of the late officer Andrew "Jock" Howie. The Brigade Band, under officer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigade Busy! Four Calls in Twenty Minutes
Katoomba Fire Brigade experienced its busiest day for some years on Thursday--the busiest, in fact, since February…
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"Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For [?], the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wentworth Falls NOTES Bad Bush Fires Cottages Endangered
The worst bush fire since those of 9 and 10 years ago, swept over the Western side of Wentworth Falls on Thursday afternoon and night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires (To the Editor)
Sir,--These Leura Park scrub fires are becoming very monotonous. Had the brigades been engaged elsewhere during Sunday's flare-up…
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One of the biggest and most dangerous, bush fires seen in the Leura district for some time occurred last Sunday in the vicinity of Jersey Avenue, near Leura Falls…
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During the week-end both the Katoomba and Leura Fire Brigades were kept exceptionally busy quelling busy fires in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Mayor Suggests Precautionary Measures
"It appears to me to be urgently necessary for the Council and others concerned to take all possible…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushlands Ablaze Big Fires in the Ranges
Lack of rain has made the bush as dry as a tinder-box, and for weeks past large fires have been sweeping the valleys…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protection From Bush Fires (To the Editor)
Sir,--Kindly allow a small space in your paper to make a suggestion in reference to how to cope with bush fires in the future…
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