Fire Victim Recovering
Mr Edward Tisdell. 43, of Killcare, who was badly burnt while fighting a big bushfire at Killcare on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
40 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
£6000 Loss Claim in Truck Fire
Majority of an estimated £6000 worth of spare parts was destroyed by fire when the truck on which it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mla on Menace of Fire
"Unless the fire menace is eliminated or reduced, this district will soon become denuded of natural life."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Threat to Houses at Pt Clare
Three houses were threat-ened and a fowlshed was burnt-out when a bushfire raced across the hill…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Inquiry in Fire That Gutted Sir S. Snow Home
Police are inquiring into the mystery fire which gutted the Wamberal home of Sir Sydney Snow early yesterday. Only the brick foundation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electrical fault believed cause of fire
An electrical short-circuit is believed to have been the cause of the fire which destroyed Sir Sidney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Entrance fire brigade made good save
"The Entrance Fire Brigade made a good save after a fire broke out at the rear of shops at 101-103…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Move for Fire Lighting
Important measures to protect district flora and fauna will be recommended to a meeting of Gosford…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Primus stove starts fire
The fire engine was call-out on Tuesday morning to attend a fire in Miss E. Rose's residence, in Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Penalties for fire carelessness too lenient
At a meeting of the Flora and Fauna Protection Society held last week a proposal was moved to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Men stole from burnt-out truck
Three men were each put on a £20 twelve months bond in Gosford Court, after they had pleaded guilty to having stolen from a burnt-out truck, on the Pacific Highway, Ourimbah,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire engine now!
Davistown will soon have a fire engine as a result of the successful barbecue and talent quest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truck was destroyed by fire
When Royce Alexander Davies of Glen Road, Ourimbah, was driving his utility truck near his home at 6…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Association formed to help bush fire brigade
The South Brisbane Water Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade Association was formed at a well-attended meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bucket brigade fought a fire
Prompt action by six men probably saved several Mann Street shops when fire quickly caught hold in the workroom of Frazer's meat service on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Penalties for fires inadequate
Gosford Fauna and Flora Protection Society, in the following letter, makes clear its stand on penalties for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire destroys car, chickens
A family of seven slept peacefully at Springfield on Thursday night, unaware that their car and nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Equipment Needed
Equipment valued at £700 is needed to fight bush fires in Gosford during next stummer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bonfires to Blaze on Monday Evening
Hundreds of piles of firewood will be heaped up over the weekend, the shops expect to sell out of crackers by Monday night, and by that time many fathers will have lost their oldest pair of trousers to the about-to-be-burned Hitler, Stalin, Menzies or Evatt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Work starts on the Davistown fire station
"Work on the building of Da vis town's first fire station may begin on Monday," the brigade captain (Mr S. Stewart) said yesterday. "Timber for the building…
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