£100,000 Fire Damage
SYDNEY, Sunday: Firemen were still watching over a smouldering block of warehouses tonight. Fire swept through the warehouses last…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
322 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 12 of 17
Shed Fire Explodes Bullets
Exploding bullets attracted attention to a fire which badly damaged a shed at…
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MT. ISA Sunday: Two men, one of whom is believed to have come from NSW, were burnt to death in a boarding house fire at…
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INVERELL, Monday: A £250,000 fire early today destroyed most of Inverell's newest and biggest shopping block. Detectives are investigating the…
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Flames from a fire in a large area of blackberries spread to within 15 yards of a brick house in Macauley-street, near…
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The daughter of two former Lithgow residents was crushed to death and four people seriously injured when a fire engine with siren screaming swerved out of control and hurtled through the fence…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. A 12 years old girl was kited and a woman and her eight years old daughter injured when struck by an out of control fire…
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Orange Fire Brigade answered a call at 5.40 p.m. yesterday to a grass fire which threatened the…
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Abercrombie Shire councillors have further expressed their opposition to a bushfire danger period being proclaimed as from October 1…
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A bushfire danger period, to cover the summer months from October 1 to March 31 has been gazetted and local residents are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire weakens rail bridge
Passengers on a Sydney-Dubbo train were transhipped by has from Euchareena to Wellingion yesterday morning after a fire had weakened girders under a wooden railway bridge…
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Firemen and power house workers used gallons of foam to fight a serious oil fire which followed a big explosion in the power house switch room last night and blacked out the whole of Lithgow for two hours. Heavy damage was caused by the explosion, but fortunately no one was…
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LONDON, Saturday: Roaring flames and deadly coal gas today claimed the lives of 13 children arid two adults in ghastly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kandos Fire Brigade Matters
Cr. Jack Williamson informed Rylstone Shire Council at its last meeting of the results of a conference he…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Baby Shop Fire
A fire yesterday morning caused minor damage to stock, walls and a door of Mrs. V. J. Sharp’s Baby…
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The Government has proclaimed a bushfire danger period in the city of Orange and…
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At their services on sunday, November 14, clergymen the Turon Shire area will be asked to make special reference to the anual Bush Fire…
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SAN BERNARDINO (California), Monday.—More than 300 people, including 71 youngsters and parents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Limit on Fire Claims Government Move
SYDNEY, Monday: The NSW Cabinet today approved a bill to limit the liability of the NSW Department of Railways for fires arising from railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coroner Praises Man's Bravery Forbes Fire Inquiry
FORBES, Monday: The District Coroner (Mr. Locke) today praised the heroism of an elderly man, Edward Francis Lynch, who tried to save the…
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