Bushfire Regulations
The Bush Fires Committee advised yesterday's meeting of the Turon Shire Council of an amendment to the Bushfires Act which permitted the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
435 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 21 of 22
Bush Fire Fighting Safety and First Aid
The fight against bush fires seldom takes the form of blitzkrieg warfare. It is usually a grim, drawn out affair in which the maximum…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The Chief Secretary has called a total ban on the lighting of fires in the once in western NSW because of the bush the…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Bushfires have been reported today in the northwest and southern areas of NSW. A big fire has been burning for two days…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- More than 50 firemen fought a fierce blaze in Eaton's timber yards at North Sydney this…
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Lithgow firemen fought a bushfire in scrub at Oakey Parle for nearly two hours yesterday afternoon to prevent it…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A chain of bushfires on the South Coast of NSW today extended over 50 miles. Five fires almost encircled tho towns of…
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MITTAGONG, This Aft.--More than a thousand exhausted, smoke-grimed fire-fighters are staging a grim battle against terrific odds in an endeavor to hold back a Wall of flame which…
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A spark from a passing engine is thought to have been the causa of a fire which burnt about a half mile strip alone the…
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Burning out of control on a wide front and fanned by gusty northerly winds, a bushfire, raging down towards Newnes township, threatened today to wipe out the picturesque Wolgan Valley, isolated since the fire late yesterday destroyed the only access bridge leading into the rugged valley…
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Bathurst and district residents yesterday sweltered in one of the most unpleasant days experienced here for a long time. But for the fact that a…
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Canobolas Shire Clerk, Mr. John Williams, said yesterday that the danger of serous bush fires in the shire was increasing rapidly because of the abnormal temperatures…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fears are held for the safety of seven families in the Newnes area, where a bush fire is raging uncontrolled. Nothing has been heard of the families since the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Fed by inflammable liquids, a fire early today gutted a factory owned by Hardman Chemicals Pty. Ltd., Chappel Street…
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WAGGA, Tuesday: Experienced formers in the Lockhart district said today that bushfire control authorities should ban the use of…
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A grass fire occurred yesterday morning in Durham Street near Bathurst District Hospital. About an acre of grass burnt before the fire…
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A grass fire occurred in Cudal during the week, but quick action, by the Five Brigade and Boree Shire…
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Extensive damage was caused to a motor cycle which burst into flames in Bentinck Street, shortly before 1 o'clock this morning. The…
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Light rain throughout the district, which began this morning, was expected to quench the huge bushfire, which, after destroying the only access bridge. into Wolgan Valley, yesterday swept down into the…
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Fire precautions at the mullion Range and Canobolas State Forests have been completed and men and machinery are ready to combat any outbreaks during the coming summer. Equipment includ a La France fire engine which is…
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