Fire
On Thursday night of last week, a fire broke out in a cottage occupied by Mr. A. Jenkins and family. Mr…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
322 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 17
Protection Racket Bid Behind Granville Fires
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--A gang of firebugs, believed to be operating in the Granville district, has threatened to destroy shops and property if businessmen failed to comply with demands for ''protection…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Police at Auburn today charged a 15 years old boy with arson and remanded him to appear at the…
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BREWARRINA, Thursday: A fire broke out at the open-air theatre to-day while the proprietor was trying to smoke out some wasps which had built…
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NEW YORK, Thursday: Twelve members of one family were burned to death last night when their modest home in Tenuanterac,. Mexico,…
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ADELAIDE, Friday: Fire athorities in South Australia have got through another day of heatwave conditions without any serious bushfire…
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SYDNEY, Sunday Another seal is being built ia an attempt to hale a fire in the State Coal Mine at Lithgow…
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Three hundred feet below the earth's surface, men fighting the State Mine fire are on the retreat. Despite an official "soft pedal" on news the fire, which began last August, is gaining ground and might completely defeat all efforts to contain it, mining union officials said at the week-end…
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SYDNEY, Mon.— Mother of four children in Lidcombe Court today was charged with starting two fires in the railway yards at…
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Press reports containing statements that the State coal mine was unsafe and had been placed in a critical position by an underground fire were subtle Communist propaganda, the secretary of the Lithgow branch of the…
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LONDON, Tuesday: British tanker, Rose Victor, on which a huge fire broke out late last night was taken in tow by a tug off the west coast of…
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The present spell of hot weather in the Orange district is Keeping bush fire…
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Since the weekend there has been a pronounced improvement in the heating of seals in the State Mine fire area and the temperature readings had dropped considerably as the result of efforts to overcome the…
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The season's first bush fire broke out about 2 miles from Clandulla last Sunday. The fire, which was…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--The Granville firebug--the biggest headache police, fire brigades and residents have had in years--struck again last night…
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SYDNEY. Friday: A man was refused ball today when the prosecutor said he feared the man would start fires…
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LONDON, Friday: Four fire engines were rushed to Tilbury docks last night when a fire broke out in a…
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DUNGOG FridaY: Police found the body of an elderly woman bencat[?] a capsized rowing boat on the with [?] river. The body was identified as that…
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SYDNEY, Thurs:—Detectives are investigating a fire which rased Sir sidnes Show's [?] seaside home at Wamberal. near Gosford…
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ALBURY. Thursday: A man described as a chronic alcoholic was sent to gaol for 15 months today far setting fire to his mother-in-law's…
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