Manildra Magazine Trees Uprooted, Home Unroofed and Fire Started by Freak Storm
Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 4
A cyclonic storm, the like of which has not been experienced here for many years, passed over a portion of this district on Saturday afternoon, and devastated everything in its path…
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Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 19
The Board of Fire Commissioners has budgeted for an expenditure of £482 this year by the Coolah Fire Brigade. The board's fund in…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Big Fire at N.Z. Airforce Stores AUCKLAND
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1
A fire at a New Zealand Air Force Station at Palmerston North caused several biff explosions…
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Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3
On Friday last a bush fire broke out on the reserve below Brigalow. The local bush fire brigade, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cudal Courier Fire Started by Lightning
Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2
Lightning during last Saturday's cyclonic storm started a fire at Mrs. Healey's, but it was quickly extinguished by rain which followed…
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Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7
On Friday last, a fire broke out on the reserve near Hanover Creek on the Yeoval-Cumnock Road, but was quickly…
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National Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Friday; Two hundred sheep were incinerated and 2500 acres of grass destroyed in a big grass fire at Skipton, in the…
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National Advocate · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 1
"We have again been most fortunate that the weather, except for the Christmas Season, has kept bush fires to a minimum. But we cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nine Riders ‘Burnt Out’ Early
Central Western Daily · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 8
The terrific pace in the early stage of the Ace’s five-miles’ scratch race “burnt out” nine of the competitors in the main event of the Orange District Cycle Club’s carnival at National Park…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Knickerbocker Hotel
National Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2
S.O. Coffey and eight men of the Bathurst Fire Brigade were called to the Knickerbocker Hotel about 4 a.m. yesterday when a fire broke out…
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National Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2
SYSTEM, [?] brigades [?] carly today [?]umber and [?] at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lucknow Fire Post Office and Store Gutted
National Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1
ORANGE, Monday: The damage caused by fire which destroyed the post office and store at the gold mining town or Lucknow near Orange…
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Central Western Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1
Lucknow residents formed a bucket brigade to save the Commercial Hotel from being burnt down early yesterday morning…
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Central Western Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1
A bushfire which destroyed 800 acres of grassland on ‘Stirling’ station was started by a a rabbiter, who left a small fire unattended for a few minutes while he…
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Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 3
"We have once again been most fortunate that the weather, except for the Christmas season, has kept bush fires to a minimum…
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Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 6
Mr. H. K. W. McKenzie, of Orange has been nominated by Molong Municipal Council for the New South Wale Board of Fire Commissioners…
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Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 4
A rabbiter was fined £3 in Orange Court this week on a charge of lighting a fire which destroyed 800 acres of grassland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Artist's Studio On Fire SYDNEY, This Afternoon
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 2
A man and his wife were severely burnt and four people were almost overcome by smoke when a fire broke out in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Captain of Bush Fire Brigade
Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 3
The appointment of Mr. R. Kingham as captain of the Molong-Orange Bush Fire Brigade was endorsed by Amaroo Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man and Wife Injured in Fire
National Advocate · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday: A woman cleaner and her husband were severely burned today in a fire on the second floor of Pacific House, George…
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