Dubbo Fire Railway Stores Damaged Dubbo
The distance away from a water hydrant prevented the Dubbo Fire Brigade from getting to work presently on an outbreak in the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1942
413 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 10 of 21
Difficult to Keep Home Fires Burning. But Lack of Manpower Affects Many. SYDNEY
In Sydney and Melbourne this winter it will probably be most difficult to keep the home fires burning. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Despite Fierce Zero Interception Allied Airmen Press Home Attacks. Four Jap Fighters Shot Down Over Lae and Rabaul. Large Fires Started in Building Area of Vunakanau
Despite fierce Japanese Zero interception and increased ack ack fire, Allied airmen pressed home their attacks on target areas at Lae and Rabaul. Over Lae our airmen were attacked by the latest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →S.A.F. Worker And Son Die In Blackheath Fire
John Mayne, aged two, and his father, William James Mayne, 35, an SAF draughtsman, met their deaths in a disastrous fire which broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Zero Fighters Got Worst of Fierce Dogfighter Near Port Moresby. 5 Shot Down; 3 Damaged. Fires at Enemy Seaplane Base Started by Our Bombers
Fire Zero fighters were shot down and three damaged in a fierce dogfight with our bombers about 50 miles south-east of Port Moresby, says our own correspondent at an undisclosed operational base…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rommel Foiled Panzers Forced to Regroup Cunning Ruse to Run British Artillery Fire London
General Rommel has been foiled in one of his main objects ... an audacious attempt to take Tobruk by a surprise assault from the south. By a break through the British mined defences at two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woollen Mills Fire Could Have Been Disastrous Brigade's Excellent Work
One building was severly damaged and another slightly so when fire broke out at the premises of the Lithgow Woollen Mills Proprietary Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Survivors of Torpedoed Coastal Vessel Japs Did Not Fire on Boats Sydney, This Afternoon
Twenty-three more men of the cargo steamer which was sunk 35 miles east of Sydney on Wednesday night appeared off a small fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One Ship[?] Two Escape in Enemy Sub Attacks East and South of Sydney. Allied Submarine Sinks Three Jap Ships, Damages Another. Our Bombers Start Large Fires in Rabaul Military Camp Area. Melbourne
Enemy submarines sunk one of three vessels attacked off the Australian east coast. The other two escaped undamaged. Two small cargo ships were attacked 35 miles inks east of Sydney. The third ship,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chimney Fire
Bathurst fire brigade was called to a chimney fire in a building at 62 Bent Street, occupied by Captain B. Lutas, yesterday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chimney Fire
The Bathurst Fire Brigade was called to 341 Russell-street the residence of Mr. Charles S[?]by Holt last night to attend a fire in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woollen Mills Fire
[?] was severely damaged and another slightly so when fire broke out at the premises of the Lithgow Woollen Mills Proprietary Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War From Air Emden's Enormous Fires Thousand Bomb Raid Plans Tragedy of Unexploded Bomb London
Many giant four engined bombers participated in last night's raid against Emden. It was a good night for night fighters, but bombing was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Fires
Since January 1 the Bathurst Fire Brigade has been called on to attend 18 fires compared with four out-break in the same period last year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arp Fire Services
Good progress has been made with training of auxiliary firemen attached, to the Bathurst fire brigade in connection with ARP activities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.s. [?] Fire on Crippled Aircraft Carrier. American Bombers Aim Well. Washington Thinks Big Battle Will Start Soon
One of the Japanese aircraft carriers destroyed by American naval forces in the big battle off Midway Island last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Averted
What might have proved a disastrous fire was happily averted on Sunday morning, 7th, when Mr. J. A. MacKellar entered his wool and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heaviest Raid on Darwin Since February. Twenty-Seven Bombers Attack. Ack Ack Fire Probably Hit Some Enemy Machines Melbourne
Darwin on Saturday experience its biggest air raid since February, but though the enemy sent over 27 heavy bombers, escorted by 12 to 15 Zero fighters, the results they achieved were negligible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Second Fire in Month at Royal Hotel. Smouldering Tobacco Causes Blaze in Lounge
A fire, the second at the Royal Hotel this month, believed to have been caused by smouldering tobacco…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Mem Committed on Charge of Arson Recent Fire at Hartley Vale Long and Incriminating Statement Denied by Man Who "Had a Few Rums"
Although he denied the truth of a signed statement he had made previously to the police, which accused another man of deliberately setting fire to a house at Hartley Vale, John William Campbell, together with the man he had originally accused (Walter Charles Moyle) was…
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