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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 6 of 20

Orange Made Fire Centre In West

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 1

A resident inspector of mid-western fire brigades, with headquarters at Orange, has been appointed by the Board of Fire Commissioners. He is Mr. Gordon Guyer, who…

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Mechanical Fire Fighting Unit for Mandurama Brigade

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 6

The Mandurama, Bush Fire Brigade notified the Lyndhurst Shire Council of the urgent need of a mechanical fire fighting unit…

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Fire Protection for New Railway Department Electrical Depot

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 2

Provision of adequate fire-fighting equipment in the new Railway Department electricity undertaking at Lithgow will be arranged as a routine matter according to the Minister for Transport, Mr. M. O'Sullivan…

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Horse Dies in Fire

National Advocate · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Wednesday: Mr. I. Newton, whose three years old racehorse El Latada. was burnt to death in a stable fire at Carnegie last night…

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Touring Lithgow Girls In Sensational New Zealand Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 5

Dressed only in their night attire two Lithgow girls, touring the northern island of New Zealand, narrowly escaped being burnt to death when a tourist hotel was partly, destroyed by fire one night-this week…

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Three Big Fires Cause Damage

Central Western Daily · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thurs day.—Nine guests was injured and six fireman [?] by a [?] wal [?] a fire raced through the 100 room Towers Hotel with terrifying speed early yesterday morning. Some guests, [?] by the…

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Clothes Catch Fire

Central Western Daily · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 5

Methodist Minister of Wollonpong and formerly of Orange, the Rev. D. F. Almond, was badly burned about the upper part of…

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Four Die in Fire

National Advocate · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thursday: At Windsor, Ontario, Mrs. Patrick Fields (26) and her three children, were burned to death yesterday when fire destroyed…

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Worker Burned in Factory Fire

Central Western Daily · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 1

A process worker suffered second degree [?] to the right hand when a spraying plant caught [?] at [?] factory yesterday. He was Neville Haddad, 35, of…

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Fire at Emmco Factory Workman Injured ORANGE

National Advocate · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 3

A process worker at the EMMCO factory at Orange was burnt the hands and w[?]sts today when a fire broke out in a spraying plant…

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Great Work in Colliery Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 5

CESSNOCK, This Morning.-- Teams of miners have worked desperately throughout the night, a mile underground in smoke and dust, to…

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£9000 Fire Damages Homestead Blaze JERILDERIE

National Advocate · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 1

Damage estimated at nearly £9000 was caused when a fire broke out last night at a station homestead 40 miles from Jerilderie, in the Riverina…

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Factory Gutted Waterloo Blaze

National Advocate · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Firemen in Sydney tonight had a hazardous time fighting a spectacular fire which destroyed Maxwell Porter and Son's…

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Cargo Ship Fire

National Advocate · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY. Thursday: [?] afternoon a fire broke out in a hold of the interstate cargo vessel Ca[?]n. at Walsh Bay Sydney…

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Rail Commissioner Recognises Fire Helpers

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.-- Britain's uneasy election truce between the Labor Government and the millions of trades unionists cracked further…

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There Was No Fire Dubbo

National Advocate · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 3

The still or Western Stores [?] Oubbo. working back last night were surprised when 14 tiremen entered the store and a large crowd gathered…

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17 Perish in Fires in Us and Canada

Central Western Daily · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 4

NEW YORK, Friday. — Thirteen members of two American families yesterday perished in two fires in the United States, while four Chinese died and 20 others were injured in a blaze in Montreal’s China…

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Child Dies in Fire Punchbowl Tragedy

National Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY. Friday. At Punchbowl the afternoon a 14 months old baby box was burnt to death when fire destroyed a small shack in which he had…

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Camperdown Fire

National Advocate · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday: Four brigades today fought for nearly an hour to subdue a fire which broke out in the fly screen factory of A. F. Agnew and…

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Big Timber Loss in Vic. Fires

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: A bushfire in high mountain country, southeast of Mt. Puller in the Victorian Alps, is settling large forests of mountain…

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