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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

398 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 18 of 20

Electric Siren For Town Fire Station

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 29 November 1950 · page 1

The N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissions will have ? an electric at the Blayney Fire Station in substitution of the…

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Annual Meeting of Bush Fire Brigade

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 November 1950 · page 18

The captain, Mr. L. E. Watt, presided over the annual meeting of Gulgong Bush Fire Brigade on October 27…

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Food Prices Under Fire

Central Western Daily · Thursday 30 November 1950 · page 11

AUCKLAND.—Opinion is still hardening here against British food contract methods as it becomes clearer that the United…

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Midnight Hunt For Fire

Central Western Daily · Thursday 30 November 1950 · page 1

Orange For Brigade, the District Ambulance, local police, a C.W.D. reporter, some taxis and private cars were led a merry…

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Fire At The Meat Works

Central Western Daily · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 1

A fire in a stores shed at Rogers’ Meat Works last night was extinguished only just in time to stop…

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"Migrants Should Be Educated Regarding Fire Menace."

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 4

Cr. R. Eggleseton, of Cumnock, at last week's Amaroo Shire Council meeting emphasised the fact that…

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S.A. Bush Fire Spreads Adelaide

National Advocate · Monday 4 December 1950 · page 6

A late report from the Murray Valley district of South Australia, says that the bushfire which started two days ago, has now spread 12 miles…

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Train on Fire Madrid Incident

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1950 · page 3

MADRID. Monday: Four persons were killed and 18 injured in a fire on the Gijon-Madrid express at Pajares yesterday…

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Apartment Fire Fumes Kill Six

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1950 · page 4

DILLONVILLE OHIO, Monday: Smoke from a fire burning below their second floor flat killed a family of six yesterday…

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Bushfires Sweep South Aust. Homestead in Danger

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1950 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday: The bushfire raying in the South Australian Murray River district is now threatening the Belah Station homestead…

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£30,000 Guest House Fire At Wallacia

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 6 December 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, This Afternoon,--A young couple and their nine-months-old-baby narrowly escaped being burned to death when a fire "gutted Hollywood guest house, at Wallacia, early this morning…

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Enormous Damage In Two City Fires-- Taubman's Ablaze

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 7 December 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, This Aft.--Deafening explosions rocked the district as fire swept through Taubmant's paint and varnish factory at St. Peters today. Forty four gallon drums and blazing materials, hurled…

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Fire Guts Factory Spectacular Blaze Inestimable Damage

National Advocate · Friday 8 December 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday: Police hurriedly moved families from 40 homes during one of Sydney's most spectacular fires in the industrial heart of…

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Newcastle Hut Fire Mother Rescues Child

National Advocate · Friday 8 December 1950 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Thursday: A woman rescued her eight months old son from his cot after the roof of a burning shed at Redhead fell on the child…

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Fire Causes £50,000 DAMAGE Families Leave Homes

Central Western Daily · Friday 8 December 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Damage estimated at more than £50,000 was caused when a lire gutted the store room of Taubman’s Paints Ltd., at St Peters, today. 120 fireman fought three…

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Bush Fire Brigades

National Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1950 · page 2

The following bush fire brigade officers were notified to yesterday's meeting of the Turon Shire Council. Limekilns. Secretary Mr. O. Clarke,…

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Brigade Called to Grass Fire

Central Western Daily · Monday 11 December 1950 · page 2

Orange fire brigade last night travelled three miles to extinguish a grass fire at the pine reserve on the Carcoar Road…

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Eighth [?] Ths in Apartment Fire

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 12 December 1950 · page 8

CHICAGO, Monday.—A fire that roared through a four-storey Negro rooming house early yesterday resulted in eight deaths…

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Bushfire Danger Areas Declared

National Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: The whole of NSW with the exception of the coastal area from the Nambucca Shire to the Queensland border has been…

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Huge Bushfires Gn Border

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Huge losses of stock are feared in bush fires which are raging along a 110 mile front on the N.S.W. South…

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