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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 2 of 20

Cudal Courier Volunteers Assist in Fire-fighting

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 8

Cudal Bush Fire Brigade and volunteer district people fought two fixes during the holidays and their prompt action averted serious damage to property…

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Bushfire Dancer

Central Western Daily · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY. Thursday. 1.— Rising temperatures and a hot wind have renewed the bushfire danger in the West,…

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Rockley Fire Outbreak Good Save by Brigade

National Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

A grass fire, which broke out on Mr. A. O. McPhillamy's property "Charlton," Rockley, between 2 and 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, swept…

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Two Fires in City Rubbish Dump

Central Western Daily · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 6

Orange City Council’s rubbish dump, at the corner of Park and Byng Streets, Orange East, had to be visited twice by members of the Orange Fire Brigade during the weekend…

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Fire at Mendooran

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

There was quite a stir at Mendooran on Monday of last week, when the laundry attached to the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Manusu…

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Huge Death Roll in Asylum Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday. -- Firemen yesterday abandoned the search for other possible victims of the fire which destroyed the three-storey…

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37 DEAD Hospital Fire in Iowa

National Advocate · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK. Sunday: Thirty seven women are known to have lost their lives in a fire which broke out in a hospital in Iowa…

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£10,000 Fire Damage Petersham Blaze

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY. Monday: Damage estimated at £10.000 was caused at a shoe factory at Petersham early today Spokesman for Kemp Shoe City Ltd…

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Lighting of Fires Banned Bushfire Danger

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 6

Canobolas Shire Council was notified by the Government at its monthly meeting yesterday that as from January 6 the bushfire…

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Fire in Sydney Shoe Factory

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.— Damage estimated at £10,000, was caused by fire at a shoe factory at Petersham early today…

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Search for Fire Victims Is Abandoned

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday. — Firemen yesterday abandoned the search for other possible victims of the fire…

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37 Dead in Fire U.s. Disaster

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday: Firemen yesterday abandoned the March for other possible victims of the fire which destroyed the three…

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Chinese Gunboats Fire on U.S. FREIGHTER (From Wayne Richardson, American Associated Press Correspondent Aboard the U.S. Freighter Flying Arrow AAP-Reuter)

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 4

MONDAY.—Chinese Nationalist gunboat shells today hit this American freighter in its ran through the blockade of the Chinese Communist coast to Shanghai. One shell started a fire on the…

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Grass Fire in East Orange

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

Orange Fire Brigade yesterday morning fought a grass fire in a backyard in Nile Street, East Orange…

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Risk of Fire From Hay Stacks Alleged , Removal Ordered By Council

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 2

A notice will tie served on Messrs. Cook Brothers, of Maria St., Blayney by the Lyndhurst S hire Council to shift two hay stacks bade to a distance of at least 150 feet from their neighbor’s shed within one month At present the stacks…

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Fire Menace

National Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

A resident of Pioneer Street in a letter to last night's meeting of Bathurst Council claimed that the long dry grass and bushes in the street…

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Fire Destroys Hay on Coolah Property

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 19

Mr. F. R. Stevenson, of Pilcabutta Estate, suffered a severe loss on Wednesday of last week, when a fire destroyed two large stacks…

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Fire in Elevator at Flour Mill

Central Western Daily · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

Orange fire brigade worked in blinding smoke for three hours yesterday morning to gain control of a fire in the grain elevator at Dalton’s Flor Mill in Peisley Street…

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Good Season, But Bushfire Menace Serious

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

Hot weather has greatly increased the bushfire danger on properties in the Rydal district, and the bushfire brigade is keeping a sharp look-out…

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Chinese Fire Disaster

National Advocate · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 2

HONG KONG, Thursday: Police and fire brigade officials have heavily reduced their earlier estimates of the number of people made homeless in…

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