Fires on Mountains
KATOOMBA, Friday: Bush fires are burning at several places in the Blue Mountains. Houses at Katoomba were threatened…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
435 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 18 of 22
Fire at "Sun" Office
SYDNEY, Friday: Peak hour traffic was disrupted for almost an hour when a fire broke out in the Sun building in Elizabeth Street, Sydney,…
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A total ban on the lighting of fires in the open will operate in Orange during the…
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With mounting temperatures and hot, dry weather, bush fire danger throughout the State, and particularly in the Blue Mountains area, is quickly rising to a climax…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--About 100 soldiers today joined volunteer firefighters, police and civilians in a desperate effort to halt a huge bushfire threatening the township of Menai, on the Woronora River…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The Board of Fire Commissioners today decided to make immediate application to the Industrial Commission for…
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Although a complete ban on the lighting of fires exists over almost every portion of the State there is little danger of bushfires in Orange district. The total ban was for 24 hours from 9 p.m. Sunday night to 9…
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A fire in the roof of the kitchen of the Rose Marie cafe in Summer Street was extinguished by Orange Fire Brigade yesterday. The brigade answered…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--North Coast farms, forests and plantations are today threatened by bushfires. Many of the hundreds of volunteers fighting fires have fallen exhausted…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Some of the biggest bushfires for many years black[?]ned huge areas on the north coast of NSW today…
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Many folk rushed to the home of Mr. S. Hookway at Denison Town on Sunday night, to help extinguish a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Three big fires and several smaller blazes has devastated thousand of acres of forest on the North Coast. A saw-mill near Machs…
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Orange City Council on Tuesday decided to join the Canobolas Shire Council in a deputationon the Spring Hill aerodrome proposal to the Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Anthony, when he visits Orange this month…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Twenty bushfires in the Coffs Harbor area are still burning out of control today after a…
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An explosion and a fire caused extensive damage to the carbide room at Emmco yesterday. Firemen had to wait until acetylene gas in cylinders burnt out before they could bring the fire under control. The brigade answered but slumped back into…
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Officers elected by Cudal Fire Brigade at its annual meeting on Wednesday night of last week…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Extensive bushfires are still burning on the North Coast to-day, but are reported under…
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The annual meeting of the Cudal Fire Brigade was held last week, with the President, W. K. Shannon, in the chair. The treasurer presented…
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Turron Shire Council at its last meeting carried a motion that “drastic action” would be taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boree Shire Council Fire Control Officer Reports on Activities Boree Shire Council's Fire Control Officer (Mr. B. C. Rowe) presented to Monday's meeting a report for the year 1953
The report was also submitted to the Bush Fire Brigade's Conference which was held at the Shire Office, Cudal…
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