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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1941

267 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 13 of 14

Ready for Bush Fires

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 December 1941 · page 17

Fully alive to the probability of greater danger from bush fires this summer, local bush fire fighting organisations have been brought up…

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The Meance of Bush Fires

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 December 1941 · page 14

YEARS of drought have brought thousands of square miles of country in our State into grave danger from bush fires this…

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Raid Shelters Obligation of Owners of Buildings Fire Precautions SYDNEY

National Advocate · Thursday 11 December 1941 · page 6

Important regulations dealing with obligations to owners of business premises to make provision for the protection in their…

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Petrol Supples for Bush Fire Brigades

National Advocate · Saturday 13 December 1941 · page 2

The [?] of the Hill End bush fire [?] Mr. F. Whittaker wrote asking the Turon Shire Council w[?] w[?] [?]…

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Boots Destroyed Big Blaze in Army Stores Glen Innes

National Advocate · Saturday 13 December 1941 · page 2

Thousands of pairs of military boots were destroyed in a first which gutted Whyte's boot factory, last night…

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Fire at Rubbish Tip

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1941 · page 8

At about 7.30 on Wednesday evening the Mayor reported to the Fire Station that a fire on council's rubbish tip showed signs of getting beyond control…

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Bush Fire Campaign Opens Minister's Warning

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 15 December 1941 · page 5

"CAN we not secure an armistice with the Red Terror for one year at least to enable us to devote our whole resources to the war?"…

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Boots Destroyed Big Blaze in Army Stores

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 15 December 1941 · page 2

THOUSANDS of pairs of military boots were destroyed in a fire which gutted Whyte's boot factory at Glen Innes…

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Bathurst Cemetery Fire

National Advocate · Monday 15 December 1941 · page 2

A fire [?] in the [?] of the Bathurst cemetery the Saturday afternoon quickly spread to the adjoining paddock and…

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Fire Brigade Is Ready For Emergency

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 15 December 1941 · page 3

Lithgow fire brigade siren in future will be sounded only in the event of an air raid. Mr. H. Board, substation officer at Lithgow, said this…

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Police Fire Warning

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1941 · page 2

The Bathurst Police issued warning to [?] without first [?] [?] The [?]…

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Big Fire at Orange £4500 Damage ORANGE

National Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1941 · page 5

A fire, which burned in Orange today for nine hours destroyed 80,000 fruit cases. The cases were stored in a shed in…

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No Alarms Sounded. When Big Fire Blazed. Sirens Banned in Orange

Leader · Wednesday 17 December 1941 · page 3

Even if Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron) had not imposed a ban on the use of fire, ambulance and police sirens in the…

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Giant Bushfire Causes Anxious Moments

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 17 December 1941 · page 3

Local residents had nil unenviable experience on Monday, when the mountain on the eastern side of the town was a mass of flames. The…

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OVER 80,000 Fruit Cases Destroyed in Fire Which Burned for Nine Hours. A. and P. Board Owned Some. Insured for £4,300. Shed in E. Orange Gutted

Leader · Wednesday 17 December 1941 · page 3

From midnight until 9 o’clock yesterday morning, police and firemen fought a fire which completely gutted a…

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Small Fire

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 18 December 1941 · page 5

EARLY on Tuesday morning, a fire occurred at the pumping station at Lawson's Creek when the switch-board controlling the pumping…

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Two Bathurst Fires in Same Day

National Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1941 · page 2

[?]tion Office, L Kav and six [?]of the Bathurst Fire Bri[?] made a [?]ood have when a [?] broke out in two wheat bi[?]s…

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Splendid Timber Destroyed In Serious Bushfire

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 18 December 1941 · page 3

A bushfire broke out a mile on the Capertee side of Running Stream about noon on Monday. The very hot day and gusty wind helped the flames…

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Outbreak of Fire

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1941 · page 13

At about eleven o'clock last Sunday morning an outbreak of fire occurred in a weatherboard building in the main street. The fire was in the room used…

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Fire at Tennis Court

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1941 · page 5

An outbreak of fire occurred on Sunday which had disastrous consequences. The locality was the courts of the Railway Tennis Club, where a fringe of…

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