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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
356 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 18
Twelve people are dead, about 150 homes have been destroyed and thousands of sheep and cattle have been destroyed by an outbreak of bushfires in Victoria. A train of fifty trucks caught alight at Yallourn and is still…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After an all-night battle the Lithgow Fire Brigade is still trying to quell one of the State's worst bush fires which is still raging in the Lithgow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FROM Our Correspondent.—Despite heavy fire from the shore, Allied flying boats taking part in a mass raid against Kavieng, New Ireland, landing in the harbor and rescued a number of crews from eight Allied planes shot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With the open cut at Yallourn still ablaze, drastic steps are being taken in Melbourne today to restrict the use of electricity. The Munitions works…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reports now being gleaned by police in the Gippsland areas indicate that the bush fire damage on Monday was fat greater than was thought. It is now…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The stealing of timber after a fire at Brenton's warehouse led to Harold Trebilcock's being fined £3. with 8/- costs, in default 6 days hard labor in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE. — Judge Stretton has been appointed as a Royal Commission to conduct the inquiry decided on by Cabinet on Monday into…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Applications received from more than 1,000 persons, who suffered in the Western districts and North-Eastern bush fires, place their losses at approximately…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Extensive damage was caused by fire at the Amalgamated Wireless Valve factory at Ashfield early this morning. One fireman,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE.—The fire in the open cut coalfield at Yallourn was extinguished yesterday. Weather conditions were against…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage to plant and machinery at Yallourn has proved to be less serious than was expected early. A big bucket dredge which it was feared might be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The discussion which led to the identification of the portrait in the watch-room at Central Fire Station as that of Mr. Jack Sully, the man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Feb. 20.—The fiercest raid London has experienced for some time took place on Friday night. The Germans, however, failed in their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE.—Emergency fire service personnel comprising police cadets, soldiers and hundreds of residents are making a desperate bid…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bombs fell on the London area to-night when high flying raiders came over in two waves, obviously trying to repeat the fire raising tactics used on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight hundred fire fighters hastened from the city today to a blaze which menaced the £300,000 Government pine forest at Kunpo. At one stage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE.—The police are considering what action, if any, they will take against a boy aged eight, who with a boy aged five, set fire to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Royal Commission, which opened its inquiry today into the cause of the fire at Yallourn open cut coalfield, adjourned until Thursday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the Central Fire Brigade answered a call from the corner of Lane and McCulloch Streets at 12.20 yesterday, it was found that the call was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Victorian bush fires have subsided. The outbreak at Yallourn did damage to the electricity plant, but the position has now been restored, and…
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