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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
356 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 18
AN outbreak of fire yesterday afternoon in the main grandstand at the racecourse of the Broken Hill Racing Club may be regarded as the culminating act in an atrocious campaign of vandalism which is probably without equal in this city. Fortunately an early alarm gave the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fireman Phil McEntee, formerly of the Central Fire Brigade, and more recently of the staff at Headquarters, Castlereagh Street, Sydney, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney, September 19.—One of the most spectacular fires seen in Sydney for some time menaced private homes, dislocated traffic and plunged a large…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Military and naval personnel removed thousands of live bombs and boxes of ammunition from the old De Luxe Theatre,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, September 20.—Allied paratroops are today fighting over three miles from the German frontier, east of the Dutch city of Nijmegen. British armored columns and air-borne forces linked up this morning in Nijmegen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This morning at 11.3 o'clock the Central Fire Brigade received a call to 116 Cummins Lane, where there was a small fire in a cottage occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schoolboys are believed to have been responsible for a malicious false fire alarm Riven yesterday afternoon. Central Fire Brigade received the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Central Fire Brigade was advised by telephone at 9.44 a.m. yesterday that one of Cook's buses, then standing opposite Martin's Corner in Argent Street…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only meagre details have been received by the local police concerning a fire on a mail van between Ivanhoe and Wilcannia on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For the second time within recent weeks there has been a Are in which a brooder and chickens have been lost. Chickens were destroyed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Central Fire Brigade received a call through the local exchange at 2.19 a.m. yesterday morning notifying them of a fire at 674 Beryl Street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last night there was an outbreak of fire in a South bus, Central Fire Brigade received the call at 8.9 o'clock. The bus was travelling on route 5,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There was plenty of trouble for one of the Alma Bus Company's buses last night. Travelling to the city with a large crowd on beard, the bus suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—When a fire broke out in the lounge room of Befield's Hotel, corner King and George Streets, city, shortly before 8 a.m. today valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last Saturday, at about 3 p.m., a fire occurred ort the Wilcannta-Ivanhoe mail truck between 8 and 11 miles from Ivanhoe, when it was being driven by the moil contractor, Mr. J. T. Green…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There was a small outbreak of fire today at the Silverton Tramway Raliway Town station. Central Fire Brigade received the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Central Fire Brigade received a call at 12.4 p.m. on Saturday to the Railway Town Station where it was found that a bathheater in the porters'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire that threatened big damage at Wood, Son and Company's headquarters at Menindee on Friday last was got under control after an exceptionally fine fire-fighting effort. It was Friday at midday when smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London. October 5.—German H.Q., at the edge of the Reichwald Forest, southeast of Nijmegen, was wiped out recently in a dusk attack by eight TAP Rocket…
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