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

Fires & bushfires, 1953

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Fire Injures 39 at Teachers’ College

Central Western Daily · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK Friday— Thirty-nine students and staff required hospital treatment for burns after…

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Mattress on Fire

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 2

Bathurst Fire Brigade received call at 12.30 a.m. this morning to extinguish a mattress which caught fire in a room at the Metropolitan Hotel,…

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Truck Seat Fire

National Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 2

Bathurst Fire Brigade received a call about 8 o'clock last night to a fire which broke out in the upholstcry of a Western Stores truck…

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Taxi Cab Seat Catches Fire From Cigarette Butt

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 1

The seat of a taxi cab owned by Mr. George Grersbach, of Hill Street, Molong, was burned on Sunday morning…

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Fire Engine “Sold” to Farmers

Central Western Daily · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 2

MOSCOW, Friday. — Thieves drove a fully equipped fire engine from a Nascow factory in…

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Thieves Sell Fire Engine Soviet Incident

National Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Friday.—Thieves drove a fully equipped fire engine from a Moscow factory in daylight and cold it to collective farmers who…

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Bushfire danger Increasing: some crops need rain

Central Western Daily · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 2

Bushfire danger in the district would become extreme in the dry, hot weather continued, District Agronomist, M. B. D. Ament, said yesterday…

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Heroic Rescue Of Children From School Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 2

ALBANY (New York), Friday.--Police-constable Walton Williams directed the rescue of nearly 400 children yesterday…

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Destructive Fire

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 1

Early on Thursday afternoon last a tire broke out in the kitchen of Mr. L. M. Lowe's home at the corner…

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Disastrous Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 4

Police investigators report that they have been unable to discover how the bush fire started which destroyed…

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Many Dead In Three Major Fires

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 1

HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Wednesday.-- A sudden fire flashed through a wooden tenement house in the city's most…

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8 Die in Fire

National Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 2

HALIFAX, (Nova Scotia), Wednesday: A sudden fire Hashed through a wooden tenement house in the city's most crowded district yesterday…

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Fire in Slum Area

National Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 2

HONGKONG, Wednesday: Four thousand Chinese were left homeless after a fire last night swept through another of the city's squatter slum…

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Tenement House Fire Kills 8

Central Western Daily · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 3

HALIFAX, (Nova Scotla), Wednesday.—A sudden fire flashed through a wooden tenement house in the city’s…

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Two Calls for Fire Brigade This Week

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 2

Molong Fire Brigade was called out twice this week to fight grass fires. On Tuesday afternoon the…

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Vacant Allotment Fire

National Advocate · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 2

Bathurst Fire Brigade was called out twice during the week-end to attend fires. However, on Saturday, reported blaze at the Show Ground…

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Forest Fires (Legal) Today

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 3 March 1953 · page 1

There will be some bushfires in the Orange district today, but they won’t cause any panic in the Orange and everything will be “well under control.” Forestry Commission…

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Fire at Mount

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 2

A grass fire at Mount Panorama on Monday morning burned out 10 acres of grass in the vicinity of McPhillamy Park. The fire was brought…

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Guard on Fire Area

Central Western Daily · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 3

The section of the Canobolas State Forest which was burned-off on Tuesday will be patrolled by…

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Mt. Panorama Fire (To the Editor)

National Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 4

Sir.—With regard to the grass fire on the Bathurst Gun Club grounds on Sunday, the facts are as follows: Gun Club members Harry Jaques…

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