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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
282 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 15
SYDNEY, Mon.—Despite cooler weather conditions bushfire brigades all over the State are on the alert for a further spread of fires. A big fire north of Wauchope is threatening the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The blistering heat at the week-end, when the temperature soared to within one degree of the century on Sunday, produced an outbreak of bush fires widely scattered over the Coffs Harbour district. Variable winds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COFFS HARBOUR, Mon.âBushfires on the North Coast claimed their first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COFFS HARBOUR, Mon.—Investigations into damage done by bush fires in the Coffs Harbour-Dorrigo district during the week-end reveal that the outstanding work of Forestry Commission patrols and district volunteer bush fire brigades saved the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tues.--In sweltering heat wave conditions to-day bush fires in many parts of the State gained impetus, but forestry officials in Sydney said to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COFFS HARBOUR, Tues.--Hundreds of men and women in the Coffs Harbour area spent to-day fighting a series of disastrous bush and grass fires over a wide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For two days South Grafton Forestry Department men and volunteers fought a fierce blaze which broke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wed.—Three big fires and several small blazes have devastated thousands of acres of State forests on the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LISMORE, Wed—A fire which burnt out about 300 acres in Bald Knox State Forest since Saturday, is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COFFS HARBOUR, Wed.—Cooler weather this afternoon brought an easing in the bushfire situation in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfires are raging in sectors of the Clarence district following a series of hot dry winds with the temperature soaring beyond the 100 degree mark…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mourners from all parts of [?]he district, particularly from Eastern Dorrigo, attended the funeral on Wednesday of John Andrew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following a week of almost continuous fire fighting, volunteer bush fire brigades, Forestry officials and district farmers yesterday had their first respite from the hazardous task…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Engulfed by raging bush fires whilst attempting to bulldoze fire breaks, 22-year-old Brooklana farmer, John Andrew Hayes was severely burned or the arms legs and body, on Sunday last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The fine response by the townspeople to Fire Chief Noel Harney's urgent appeal for volunteers to assist in the fight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire broke out about 1.30 p.m. yesterday in the laundry of a residence occupied by Mrs. and Mrs. J. T. Baker,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The grim realism of carelessness of some persons has again been forced upon us with the many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Thurs. -- Six people were injured today, in one of the fiercest fires experienced in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A railway worker's tent containing most of his belongings was destroyed by fire at South Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dorrigo Shire Council has received advice from the Forestry Commission that it is contrary to the provisions of the Forestry Act…
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