Bush Fire Facts
Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed every year by…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
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Blue Mountains Shire Council General Items From Council Meeting B.M. Fire District
Further, investigation indicates that the U.C.V. of the Blue Mountains Fire District will exceed the estimate of £322,930 by £47,000. It…
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Blackheath Fire Brigade made three splendid saves In two days, starting on Saturday last. An electric Iron, which was left…
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On Wednesday night of last week, the Blackhath Fire Brigade was called out to a fire in the peg factory—the second in a few days…
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Early in this month, Station Officer J. Sheeky, of the local fire brigade, commenced his annual leave, and Station Officer H…
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Within a few seconds of the sounding of the fire alarm on Tuesday, the firemen, with customary speed and efficiency…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners forwarded a report in connection with the prevention of bush fires to the B. M. Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A "Raw Deal" Goulburn Wanted Fire Demonstration
The selection of Katoomba, for the second time in three years, as the venue for the N.S.W. Volunteer Fire Brigades' demonstration…
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At a meeting of the Western Division Volunteer Firemen's Association held in Katoomba on Saturday, and attended by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Homecoming for Katoomba Digger Home Totally Destroyed by Fire
Mingled with the memory of the unforgettable Anzac Day celebrations in the city, in which he participated, Digger T…
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A fire which was probably the colnshire. All the inmates were in work of incendiaries totally destroyed the Epworth Rectory,…
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When a railway official looked across the street about 12.15 a.m. on Sunday, he was smoke emerging from the front door of R.J…
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Some of the fire engines, still charred from the original Chicago fire of 1871, take part in the motion picture version of the…
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The Mount Wilson Progress Association and the Springwood Development League have communicated with the B.M. Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Katoomba Municipal Council General Purposes Committee Important Session "Gallery" Home by the Fire
The General Purposes Committee of Katoomba Council met on Tuesday night. For the first time within recollection, there was not a single…
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The Hazelbrook Urban Committee advised the B. M. Shire Council at its last meeting that it did not consider any special arrangements…
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A spectacular blaze was narrowly averted at Blackheath on Tuesday afternoon, when fire broke out in the…
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An extensive bush fire raged yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of 2KA's transmitting station at Wentworth Falls and,…
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Driven along at a furious pace by a westerly gale, a bush fire in the Katoomba Falls -- Echo Pt. area caused many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spring Flower Show Leura Horticultural Society Welcomes New Season with Blaze of Color
"Daffodils ... That come before the swallow dares ..." Spring was ushered in with a blaze of golden daffodils and and other early blossoming flowers, at Leura on Wednesday…
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