Fire Leaves 120 Homeless
BRISBANE, Fri.--The fire which razed the barracks at Zillmere housing project to-day left 120 migrant workers…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Bushfires In Queensland
BRISBANE, Fri.--Cattlemen hacked down fences and gates on eight properties to-day to allow stock to escape from…
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An old residence in the course of demolition on Housing Commission property in Hawthorne street, South…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--The carcases of hundreds of sheep and wild animals are scattered over an estimated 500,000…
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WOOLGOOLGA.--At the end of last week dense smoke from severe bushfires around Wool- goolga hung over the area…
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A fire which started in undergrowth on the large area of vacant land aft the rear of residences facing High, Coramba…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Urgent steps are being taken to declare a bushfire danger period in the Shire of Terania, Lismore, the…
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Following a prolific growing season with frost-dried grass and the bush and surrounding countryside heavily clothed with undergrowth, the fire danger this year would be particularly acute…
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BRISBANE, Wed.--The bush fire which has already burnt out 250 square miles in the Claremont district of Central…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.--Minutes before the blazing top storey of the Beechworth Asylum collapsed to-day, 400 male…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Sunday--Fire destroyed the contents, and almost completely demolished a weatherboard cottage in Hill street, Coffs Harbour, early this morning…
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A weatherboard dwelling in Hill Street occupied by Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Green and family, was burnt out in an early morning blate on Sunday prompt action by nearby residents held the flames in check untill the…
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MACLEAN.--A number of Maclean residents made a rush trip to Broome's Head on Friday when advice was received that…
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Grafton police have not received any report of bush fires accurring in the Clarence River district…
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BELGRADE.--A dog, to whose tail children had tied a piece of burning paper, set on fire 11 houses, including stables…
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The Upper Orara Bush Fire Brigade was re-formed at a meeting last week when the following office bearers were elected:…
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A Cangai man, Lester Attwater, was severely burned on the hands, arms and face when an explosion occurred in a home…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Using small bushes as extinguishers, a young married couple stopped a bushfire which was threatening their…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Firemen battled for five hours to-day to control a cargo of blazing copra aboard the £1,000,000 liner, Bulolo, at Walsh Bay. Several fire fighters, overcome by fumes, collapsed, and…
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An electric stove was damaged in a fire at the residence of Mr. A. E. Harrison, manager of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy…
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