Radio As Fire Fighting Aid
The P. M. G.’s Department has granted permission to the Eugowra North and Burdette bushfire brigades to use four…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
454 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 22 of 23
Dunedoo Fire Brigade into Action
A fire which occurred at the residence of Mr. W. Jenkins on Friday afternoon gave the Dunedoo Fire Brigade its first opportunity to…
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Representatives from eight bushfire brigades in the Canobolas Shire area will submit information regarding their numbers and equipment to the council, in accordance with the recently passed Bush fires Act…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Truman Under Fire From Party ‘Rebel’
Mr James Byrnes, former U.S. Secretary of State, stated recently that too many people in America were thinking of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass Fire
A small area of grass was destroyed by fire shortly after 11 am yesterday on a vacant allotment in Bentinck Street, opposite Conroy's woodyard,…
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CESSNOCK, This Aft. -- Damage estimated at nearly £20,000 was caused by fire which severely damaged the haulage of No. 2 tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£4,000 Fire At Glen Davie Destroys Cafe
The Silver Bell Cafe, Glen Davis, was completely gutted and all fittings and equipment destroyed when fire broke out in the building yesterday afternoon and caused damage stated to be in the vicinity of £4,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Brigade Officers
The following officers of North Bangaroo bushfire brigades in the Boree Shire Council were endorsed at Monday’s meeting, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Damage in Mine Fire Bellbird Blaze
CESSNOCK, Monday: A fire severely damaged the haulage of No. 2 tunnel of Bellbird colliery early this morning. The tunnel is about a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yeoval Bush Fire Brigade
The following officers of the Yeoval Bush Fire Brigade were endorsed at Monday’s meeting of Amaroo Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Extraordinary Basement Blaze
LONDON, Thursday. -- Smoke blackened firemen were last night still fighting London's worst basement blaze for 20 years -- in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Burning In Cold Snap
Fires were burning last night in some Orange homes in a most unseasonable cold snap. Following Tuesday morning’s Terrific thunderstorm over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Danger of Fire at Fairbridge School
The Governing Council of Fairbridge Farm Schools is concerned about the risk of serious damage by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Drugs Destroyed in Fire Darlinghurst Outbreak
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Fire broke out in a four storey factory at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Hutchinson Lane, Darlinghurst, late this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2Lg's Mast Endangered by Bush Fire
Fire fighters had to walk a mile from the fire engine to beat out flames which were moving through a patch of scrub, above Chinaman's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Covent Garden Blaze Checked
LONDON, Thursday: In London, the big fire in the basement beneath the famous Covent Garden markets, which had been burning for 35 hours, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Boy Dies in Fire Sister Badly Burned
BRISBANE, Thursday: A five-year-old boy, Brian Percy Warner, was burned to death to a fire which totally destro[?] his parents' farmhouse in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfires at Lithgow
LITHGOW, Friday: Firemen at Lithgow this afternoon had a busy time with bushfires thought to have been started by a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Million Dollar Fire
NEW YORK, Tuesday: A fire which began in a Christmas tree on Christmas night is estimated to have caused nearly 1,000,000 dollars damage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Bitumen Stocks
BRISBANE, Tuesday: Firemen in Brisbane this afternoon had to cut their way through barbed wire to a fire in a vat of 300 drums of bitumen…
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