The 1915 Fire!
Early spring, 1915, Jack Garrett, who resided on Mr. M. Willis's property, was, we understand, engaged in burning…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
282 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 15
Fire Threatened House On Lower River
MACLEAN, Thursday.—A big gang of fire fighters had to work strenuously to save a house from destruction when an outbreak of fire spread rapidly at…
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Timber used for firing kilns at the Grafton brickworks in Arthur street was saved from destruction by…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—One of Melbourne's most spectacular fires caused damage estimated at £60,000 to the main office and chemistry section of…
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BRISBANE, Sun.--About 40,000 square miles of coastal Queensland was blanketed by smoke at the…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Monday.-- The District Forester at Coffs Harbour, Mr. W. Quinn, reported to-night that fires in the Woolgoolga and Bruxner Park forest…
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LONDON (AAP—Reuter). One thousand firemen and women from 10 countries on Sunday moved into…
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CASINO, Wed.—A mobile army of more than 500 men armed with equipment worth thousands of pounds,…
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LISMORE, Wed.--Fire to-day razed a large garage and bulk supply depot at Burringbar, causing £5000…
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SYDNEY, Thursday--A man was burnt to death and another died to-night from extensive burns received in a violent explosion and fire at Taubman's paint works at Villawood, this afternoon…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Sun.--Coffs Harbour Fire Brigade was called out on Saturday morning to a scrub…
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LISMORE, Sunday.--A 76-year-old pensioner, Robert Hutton, was burned to death early this morning in a small weatherboard cottage which he…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Mon.--Lack of fire hydrants near the railway yards at Coffs Harbour was brought…
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The Coffs Harbour Fire Brigade was called out to quell a grass fire which got out of control when it entered a thick stand of…
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MACLEAN, Saturday.--At a meeting of the Harwood Shire Council, Mr. Roy Cameron, Deputy Shire Clerk, in reply to a question by Cr. O. R. Ryan, said that the Bushfire Fighters'…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fire to-night gutted a Woolworth's store in George street, causing £150,000 damage. The fire threatened to envelop a business block bounded by Hunter street, Angel Place, and George street…
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LISMORE, Thursday. Damage estimated at £2000 was caused at Lismore showground…
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A new bush fire brigade has been formed at Woolgoolga, to be known as Newman's Road Bush Fire Brigade. Mr. A. F…
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An outbreak of fire at the premises of Atkins and Holdt, auto electricians, Victoria street, Grafton,…
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Grafton Fire Brigade was called to extinguish a fire outbreak in a former brick pit, at the northern…
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