£10,000 Loss in Western Stores Fire Tributes To Firemen
Loss and damage in the fire at Western Stores on Monday was estimated yesterday at £10,000 to £12,000. Further tributes were paid to Orange firemen…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
547 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 7 of 28
Big Sydney Fire's Affects Not Known Yet
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The effect that the big cotton fire in Sydney might have on rationing of clothes and household linen cannot yet be…
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A fire-fighter is thought to have been burned to death in a huge bush fire which is rushing out of control towards the village of Launching…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire Threatens Melbourne
A [?]rce bushfire was sweeping towards Launching Place (on the Upper Yarra), early today, and threatening farms on the outskirts of the town…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rubbish Heap Fire
A rubbish heap fire at the rear of the Knickerbocker Hotel shortly after five o'clock yesterday afternoon, disappointed a lot of Bathurstians who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Acetylene Cylinder Caught Fire
The Orange Fire Brigade received a call from the EMMCO factory at Orange early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Ship's Fire Melbourne, This Afternoon
Fifty firemen are desperately fighting a fire which broke out in the hold Of the freighter Pemba at Port Melbourne early this morning…
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Only slight damage was caused by a fire which broke out in the kitchen roof at the rear of the Blue Bird Cafe this afternoon. Apparently…
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A financial statement, forwarded by the Board of Fire Commissioners to Coolah Council discloses that the total income for the past…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Two fire engines travelled about half a mile to [?] fire in a tram 20 yards from fire headquarters today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Cotton Save From Customs Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Salvage experts expect to save a big percentage of the cotton damaged in the £750,000 fire at a Customs store at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Fire to Stop Arab Raid Heavy Jew Casualties
JERUSALEM, Wednesday : British troops intervened with shellfire to halt further ther bloodshed after strong Arab forces, in the biggest ambush yet witnessed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Set Dog On Fire
SYDNEY, Thursday: A man , who was alleged to have poured kero[?]ene on a dog and then set it alight ,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wentworth Falls Golf House Fire SYDNEY, This Afternoon
Dressed only in night attire 20 guests and 10 members of the staff fled for their lives from the Wentworth Falls Golf Club and Guest…
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SYDNEY. Friday.—Twenty guests and two staff members had a narrow escape when they tied from Wentworth Falls…
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KATOOMBA, Friday: Twenty guests and ten members of the staff fled in their night attire from the Wentworth Falls golf club and guest house when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman Risks Life to Save Pet Dog in Fire
SYDNEY, Monday: A woman risked her life this morning in rescue her [?] trapped in a [?] in [?]…
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PARKES, Wednesday: Although the Municipal Council at Parkes is worried about the shortage of wood fuel supplies for the town, it intends…
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The Mayor, Ald, O. G. Parnham, informed aldermen at last night's meeting of the Bathurst City Council that the president of the Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Disastrous Fires Sydney, This Afternoon
Fire which destroyed paper and wood pulp valued at thousands of pounds at Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd., Matraville, early this…
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