Serious Fire at Korora
COFFS HARBOUR, Monday—Exhausted fire-fighters in the Korora Basin area, who endeavoured to snatch a brief rest after three days and nights battling against bush fires,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
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Relief for Fire Victims
CANBERRA, Monday—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said to-day that, as result of a Cabinet decision, further relief will be given for bush fire sufferers…
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ILUKA. Mon.—The recently formed Iluka Bush Fire Brigade had a call yesterday when a heath fire…
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Sympathy with sufferers in the bushfires which have swept New South Wales was extended by Grafton Red…
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A fire which had been smouldering in the swamp tea-tree country on Shark Creek, about three miles from Tyndale Central since Sunday, flared up yesterday under the influence of a stiff north-easterly wind…
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SYDNEY, Tues. — The Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt) to-day announced a total…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—Thousands of volunteers were engaged in fighting bush fires raging to-day in the…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday — A devastating bush fire to-day destroyed a workshop and equipment at the Government Observatory at Mount Stromlo worth about £100,000…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—The Minister for Health (Mr. O'Sullivan) had promised a fire escape would be erected at the Runnymede Maternity Hospital at Grafton as soon as…
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SYDNEY, Tues. — Firefighters early to-night were crossing rugged terrain in an attempt to reach a…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday—A woman was burned to death, six people were seriously burned and 40 homes were destroyed in Victorian hush fires to-day…
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KCORAWATHA, Wed.—Local police to-day said that for the first time in the history of fire brigades, boiling water was used in an attempt to save a blazing building…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Thurs.—Volunteer fire fighters were called out again to-day to light a fire near Coffs…
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The central committee of the Coffe Harbour bush fire brig[?]des appointed Mr. G. A. Crawford group captain for the…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.— Army and Navy units to-day fired 56-minute guns. The First Field Regiment,…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—A serious bushfire broke out late this afternoon in the Blue Mountains…
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Bulldozers were responsible for preventing heavy damage to buildings etc., in the Cascade-Briggsvale area during the last week, reports Mr. H. Neame, O-I-C Foresters, Dorrigo…
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A revolutionary method of fire fighting with steam log that has been developed in Miami, Florida, could, if…
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Alexander Colin Kidd, aged 39, of no fixed abode, appeared in the Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on…
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TOKIO, Thurs. (AAP-Reuter).—British Commonwealth artillerymen fired every big gun in their division at the Chinese Communists to-day in a salute to their dead monarch and new Queen…
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