Serious Bush Fire Narrowly Averted Carelessness Of Campers
WHAT might have been a serious bushfire was narrowly averted when a station employee discovered grass burning near…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
209 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 11
Grass Fire
A small area of grass at the South Broken Hill golf links was burned yesterday afternoon. The fire was extinguished by members of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Amusements "On the Night of the Fire," at Ozone
A strikingly unusual film, "On the Night of the Fire," which will commence a two-nights' season at the Ozone Theatre tonight, is reminiscent…
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It is believed that men working on electric wires near the fire alarm box at the corner of Oxide abd Mica streets this morning were responsible…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Detectives are not yet certain whether the fire at the distributing depot of Vacuum Oil Company Pty. Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Oil Depot Arson Suspected MELBOURNE
A THOUSAND gallons of petrol kerosene crude oil and lubricating oil were lost last night in a lire which broke but at the Vacuum Oil…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wind Change Saves Townships Campers Blamed For Bush Fire SYDNEY
A SUDDEN change in the strong westerly wind saved the townships of Mulgoa and Wallacia from a bush fire which was sweeping towards…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lucky Escape From Death Schoolmaster's Dash Through ' Fire SYDNEY
Mr. J. Caldwell, schoolmaster, of Berrima, had a narrow escape when the steering gear of his car jammed while he was making a four mile…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass Fire at Railway Town
A lighted match or cigarette butt carelessly thrown down caused a fire which burned an area of grass and damaged a tree in Wills Street, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfires Sweep S.A. Inman Valley in Danger; More Outbreaks Likely Adelaide
LEAVING miles of burnt out scrub country and large areas stripped of feed, some of the hills' bushfires were still burning fiercely today, and renewed outbreaks are threatened in other districts…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Red Influence In Labor Party Mr. Mckell Under Fire Sydney
RESOLUTIONS calling the State Labor Party to depose the Parliamentary Leader (Mr. McKell,) and stating that Mr. Lang and his supporters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire at One Tree 13 Men Fight Blaze For Four Hours
BLAZING on a half-mile front a grass fire at One Tree Station yesterday aftemoon swept to within a close distance of the station home…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good Save At Zinc Corporation Fire Damage on 12 LEVEL
A GOOD save was effected by firefighters when a fire broke out on the 1200ft. level at the Zinc Corporation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →False Fire Alarm
Called out at 8.57 o'clock last night, the Central Fire Brigade answered a malicious false alarm. The alarm was received at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops Fire on Rioters
CAPE TOWN, April 4.—Seventeen men were killed and several were wounded this morning when the Militia was forced to fire on natives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cruiser Renown Under Fire Points in Fight in Wild Seas From Narvik to the Kattegat (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, April 11
FOUR German cruisers, a number of German destroyers, and some U-boats have been sunk since Sunday. In a fight with the German battle cruiser, Scharnhorst, the battle cruiser, Renown, was hit by a shell which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sewerage Plan Under Fire Minister's Denial SYDNEY
A denial that when sewerage was installed in Broken Hill there would not be a sufficient water supply, for the sewerage was made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nazi Air Base Bombed 80 Minutes of Warship Fire London, April 17
STAVANGER aerodrome was heavily bombarded by British warships for 80 minutes early today, says an Admiralty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transformer Fire
The Central Fire Brigade was called out at 12.84 a.m. today "to extinguish a fire which had broken out on top of an electric light transformer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Electric Light Pole
When electric light wires on a pole in Pell Street off Bismuth Street burst into flames early this morning the Central Fire Brigade was called…
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