Small Fire Outbreaks
Gosford Volunteer Fire Brigade attended two fires which were reported to be menacing property…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
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Fires threaten homes at Hardy's Bay
A scrub fire af Hardy's Bay yesterday would probably have destroyed 20 or 30 homes if the wind had swung to the south or west. The Hardy's Bay post-…
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Gosford Volunteer Fire Brigade went to Point Clare on Wednesday, after receiving a call that the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£3700 sawmill fire at Erina
A sawmill fire at Erina early on Saturday morning caused damage estimated at £3700. The fire was on the property of I. B. Day and…
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Gosford police have been unable to find the cause of a fire which severely damaged an old weatherboard…
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A bushfire danger prohibition period will be in force throughout NSW for the next six months…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1000 Fire in Hall at Morisset
Damage estimated at £1000 was caused by a fire which broke out at the Morisset picture theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Visitors thanked for bushfire work
Appreciation of the efforts of visitors in controlling a bush fire which swept through the Wagstaff hills recently was recorded at the meeting of the Pretty Beach-Wagstaff Citizens'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Davistown Fire Plan
The committee of the Davistown Bush Fire Brigade has called a public meeting on Wednesday at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bushfire Threat to Homes Brigade's fight in cemetery
Bushfires threatened homes on the outskirts of Gosford at the weekend. Fires were still raging yesterday at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner's Remarks on Blaze at Morisset Serious Warning on Death Risks by Fire in Halls
Electrical wiring of Morisset Memorial Hall and Literary Institute was in an extremely faulty condition and constituted a grave danger of fire and possibly electrocution, District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Springfield Road Fire
Gosford Fire Brigade was called out to a grassfire at Springfield Road this morning. No serious damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire destroys cottage at Ourimbah
Shortly after 4 pm yesterday fire totally destroyed a weatherboard cottage in Young's Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lighting of fires in shire banned
A total prohibition on lighting fires in the open air has been imposed in Gosford Shire…
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A fire which broke out in a Donnison Street, "West Gosford, house on Sunday afternoon, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →100 Fight Fires for 5 Hours 2O houses saved by Brigade
More than 100 men took part in a desperate five-hour fight against a bushfire which threatened about 20 houses in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Badly Burnt in Fighting Bush Blaze
A man who was badly burnt while fighting a two mile front bushfire, which was described as "roaring…
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