Bushfire Equipment Brigades To Be Contacted
Bush Fire Brigades within Amaroo Shire will be circularised shortly and asked what equipment is required for the coming…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
454 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 15 of 23
Fire at O.p.m. Cool Store
DAMAGE of £7,000 to £8,000 was caused, mainly to the offices, in last Sunday’s fire at the Orange Producers’ Sural Co-operative Society’s cool stores in Paisley Street. The photograph shows the scene of greatest damage, with…
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An electricity meter board and wiring were destroyed by fire at a residence in 31 Hayley-street on Saturday afternoon…
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At 3.53 yesterday afternoon the Bathurst Fire Brigade was called to extinguish a chimney fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Smith at 16…
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After a Dubbo hotel guest, Don Hudson. of Narromine had been resected by firemen from a smoke-filled bedroom this morning, a search was…
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A discussion on the hut constructed on the footpath outside Orange Post Office caused some merriment at Orange City Council meeting on Thursday night…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — A man died in the South Sydney Hospital last night five hours after he had drunk…
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A terrible fire swept Chungking, the capital of China since the Japanese occupation, and which has latterly been…
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A new forest fire which by last night had already encircled an area of 7500 acres has broken out' in the Lot-Garonne Department, 50 miles…
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PARIS, Monday.—A new forest [?], which by last night had already encircled an area of 7,500 acres, has broken out…
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PARIS, Tuesday: Three thousand troops and fire fighters sweated and tolled in blazing sunshine throughout yesterday before getting a new…
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A severe apple drought was narrowly averted the other day, when a fire started in a big cool storage depot at Orange…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.— A young mineworker at Ben Bullen open cut mine, near Lithgow, nearly lost his…
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Twelve bushfire brigades covered an area of 889 square acres in the Turon Shire area. Reformation of these brigades should be commenced…
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Orange fire brigade was oiled out in pouring rain at 2.45 a.m. yesterday when a fire started in the electrical maintenance shed at Emmco factory. Firemen fought the blaze…
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CANTON, Sunday: The bodies of 1700 victims of the great fire in Chungking a Week ago have now been recovered…
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The following officers were elected at the recent meeting of the Mandagery Bushfire Brigade:…
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MOLONG, Thursday. — Sandra Pay Simmons, aged three years, died in Molong hospital today as the…
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Full precautions were taken and traffic was diverted for 20 minutes last night when high-tension wires carrying 11,000 volts into the Small Arms Factory threatened to fall into Methven-street after a pole was set alight by an electrical blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →200 Lives Lost in Ship Fire Canadian Tragedy
TORONTO, Sunday: With a known loss of nearly 200 lives the Great Lakes cruise ship Noronic 6905 tons, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Latest figures issued by the police are 190 bodies…
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