Holiday Week-end Fires Bathurst Brigade Kept Busy
Bathurst Fire Brigade was called out on three occasions on Saturday afternoon to attend fires in the city and one out of the fire district…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
454 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 23 of 23
Lithgow Should Demand Second Fire Motor
If a major fire broke out in Main-street or any Lithgow factory areas during the holidays or at any other time for that matter, there is just a chance that the fire brigade would not be able to reach it…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: A big bushire in the Blue Mountains which threatened homes at Mt. Boyce yesterday, and last night, is now under control…
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Sparks from, burning-off operations in the vicinity last night set fire to the wooden planking at Cooerwull platform, threatening to destroy the entire structure before being brought under control by the Lithgow brigade…
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Captain Clifford, officer in charge of the Orange Fire Station, yesterday issued a warning against the careless use of fire over holiday periods. Captain Clifford said that holiday-makers and picnickers should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Millthorpe Bush Fire Brigade (From Our Correspondent)
MILLTHORPE.—An important meeting of the Millthorpe Bush Fire Brigade will take place tonight…
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The heat wave has increased the fire risk of in Orange and a request that people turn off taps and garden hores, when they hear the fire siren, was made by Fire Station Officer B. Clifford yesterday…
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LITHGOW, Thursday: At four o'clock this morning, sparks from some smoulderling blackberry bushes caused a fire which threatened a…
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If it were not so serious the situation in which the Mt. Victoria bush fire brigade has been placed would he a comical farce…
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Latest forecast. Central Districts: fine and hot; slightly moderate north-east winds. Extreme bushfire danger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →43 Fires in 1949
Bathurst fire brigade attended 43 fires during the year. The biggest outbreak was on March 30, when the…
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Bathurst fire brigade was called yesterday morning to extinguish a grass fire on a vacant allotment on the Common at the rear of Hansard…
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ORANGE, Friday: Orange fire brigade was called to a grass fire in the grounds of Wallarol College about 10.30 this morning…
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COONABARABRAN, Friday: A fire which could have caused disruption to electricity supplies of three towns in the northwest occurred this afternoon…
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NYNGAN, Friday: Police are inquiring into the cause of a fire in a class room at the Nyngan Convent school…
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