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Blue Mountains · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

7 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

B.m. Shire Bush Fire Relief Fund— 1945

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 8

The balance sheet of the above fund, duly audited by A. C. Lamrock, F.C.A. (ACCT), and signed by the President (A. M. Hodgson), Treasurer…

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Bush Fire Brigade Needs Subscriptions Public Meeting Next

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 7

The volunteers who have offered to fight bush fires if the public supplies essential equipment, needs further donations before they can…

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Fire Brigades Busy

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 7

The necessity of two fire engines at Katoomba was again emphasised on Friday last. While the brigade was fighting a fire in Plantation Street,…

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The Views of Other People (To the Editor) "Father Fixed It" Fire

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 7

Sir,—I would like to know on whose authority the statement that "no blame, however, is attached to the alleged originator of the fire between…

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Bush Fire Brigades Equipment Fund

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 7

The District Fire Brigade Officer (Mr. G. Gilmour). always a popular visitor to the Mountains, has spent much time in our midst lately…

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Mountain Home Destroyed by Fire

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 1

Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Katoomba and Leura Fire Brigades attended a fire at the mountain home of Doctor Fitzgerald, in Gladstone…

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Bush Fires

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 6

Reported outbreaks of bushfires last summer totalled 223 and the total estimated damage from these fires was £71,000…

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