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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
241 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 13
STATION-OFFICER G. GILMOUR, an A.R.P. expert attached to the Castlereagh Street Fire Brigade headquarters, and an official lecturer for the National Emergency Services Department of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An unexplained fire destroyed six buildings containing huge stocks of defence [?] Company's premises…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BATHURST, Thursday.—The most disastrous fire in Bathurst for 10 years raged today, causing untold damage. During the height of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Overcome with excitement when he saw two firemen fall 20ft. into a burning building when the roof collapsed this morning. Russell Jones (50)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GERMAN and Rumanian sources claim that Odessa, the important Russian port on the Black Sea; was entered today by Rumanian troops. It is thought here that there is no reason to doubt the Axis claim…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With the approach of the bush fire "season," the Bush Fires Advisory Committee has issued an urgent appeal to shire councils throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"WHAT quality is it that enables men to do acts of cold courare under fire?" asks John Hetheringfton, the "Melbourne Herald" special representative who saw the A.I.F. fight in Libya, Greece and Syria, in this article…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Navy report of eleven missing as a result of a U-Boat attack on the destroyer Kearny has caused a blaze of indignation against Germany in official circles. Despite the GErman denials there is no doubt, whatever…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →School routine was interrupted at Kinalung Siding School on Monday when pupils dropped their text-books and became fire fighters for a few…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AUCKLAND, Monday.— Mystery surrounds the outbreak of fire which last night destroyed the four-roomed house owned by the Koiterangi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hundreds of coffins were destroyed in a fire at the works and garage of Wood Coffill in Camperdown last night. Over 10,000 onlookers watched the blaze, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Automatic alarms which ring a bell the moment a fire bomb gets into a building may be a new ally of Britain's hundreds of thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Automatic alarms which ring a bell the moment a fire bomb gets into a building may be a new ally of Britain's hundreds of thousands of fire-watchers this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Severe damage was done to a stone and wood and iron house at 400 Iodide Street by a fire which broke out late yesterday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, November 2.—Forty-six mill workers, including 36 girls, aged between 16 and 20 years, are now known to have died in the clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire report is usually regarded as one of the customary duties of a police officer on chargeroom duties, but when Mrs. J. Loy, wife of Sgt. Loy[?] of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AN admission of the stubbornness of Russian resistance on the central front is contained in the Berlin statement that the German troops have to fight bloody battles to gain yards, rather than miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. J. Steffensen, manager of Frome Downs Station, about 150 miles west of Broken Hill, wan severely burned when a fire broke out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At noon yesterday the Central Fire Brigade and the South volunteer Fire Brigade answered a call to the rear of Waller Sullv's in Argent Street. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A garage two trucks and two ears in addition to several drums of petrol and a large quantity of tools and equipment were destroyed in a fire at…
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