Grass Fire Near Tip
A fire, which broke out in a rubbish tip, just off the Cargo Road, yesterday afternoon, destroyed a nearby area of grass Orange Fire Brigade, which was notified of the outbreak…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
454 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 23
National Health Plan Under Fire Bitter Scene In Commons
LONDON, Friday. — Bitter exchanges in which the Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan accused the Opposition of “running away,” marked the presentation in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ig Blaze Narrowly Averted * SYDNEY
A dangerous fire at the Government store house in Harrington Street started yesterday. Large quantities of inflammable material were burning fiercely when the fire brigades arrived. After a…
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On Saturday night the owner slept undisturbed while a fire was destroying a garage at the rear of his premises in Hassan's Walls-road and neighbors were frantically attempting, to prevent with buckets of water the flames from spreading…
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LONDON, Monday: If Eari Baldwin doesn't return as Governor of the Leeward Islands, demonstrations and a general sit-down strike by…
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At 2.30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, a fire broke out in the chimney of a two-storeyed brick residence at 113 Hav[?]nah Street, Bathurst. Little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Ravage Westralia SYDNEY
Huge bush fires in Western Australia are doing immense damage to timber forests. They are raging fiercely in the…
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The local brigade was called into action on Friday afternoon last to put out a fire at the rear of the police station which had ignited a…
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Popular Station Officer, Jim Ivey, leavEs BAthurst next Friday to take up duties at Campsie, Sydney…
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Following complaints front various organisations in the district, Mr. Charles Cutler, MLA for Orange, has protested to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dry Ice to Check Fires Colliery Experiment SYDNEY
Dry Ice may be used in NSW mines to prevent fires in coal deposits. The Aberdare colliery on the Northern NSW field has already started…
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Station Officer Ivey, of Bathurst F[?] Brigade, left yesterday to take up duties at Campsie, Sydney as from today. His successor is Fire Officer…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Forming a "human chain" stretching from the windows of the building, down ladders and aero the quadrangle, men and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Efforts to Check Mine Fire
CESSNOCK, Tuesday: Miners are working desperately to check the fire at Ayefield No. 3 colliery, which threatens destruction of 1,000,000 tons…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mrs. Alice Adele Louise Smith (50), wife of the chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners Mr. Thomas J. Smith…
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At Cowra last night £50,000 worth of bagged wheat was saved by the local fire brigade when a fire broke out in Corp's flour mill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rockley Man Badly Burned Threw Gunpowder on Fire
After running 20 yards to the phone with shocking burns to the face, arms, chest and body, Hubert Stanley Brennan (27), grazier, of Rockley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annual Meeting of Cooyal Bush fire Brigade Well Attended
The annual meeting of the Cooyal Bush Fire [?] was held at Cooyal on Friday, February 4, and was particularly well attended. The Captain, Mr. Ambrose…
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Strict precautions should be observed to ensure that street fire hydrants are kept clean and operable, otherwise the homes of…
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At the height or last night's heavy, storm a lire broke out in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robert Pryce Jones of Esrom Road, Bathurst. shortly…
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