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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
356 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 18
With two attacks on Friday night on Augsburg, the Bomber Command, for the second time in 24 hours, made a double attack on the German industrial centre. It was also the second time the RAF had followed up a day onslaught by United States…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At 3.30 p.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to the corner of Morgan and Chloride Streets. It was a false alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Giving evidence to the Royal Commission on the Yallourn fire today, Robert McKay, engineer-in-charge of the cool supply, admitted that the fire fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German attacks on the Anzio beachhead slackened off this morning, says a report from the beachhead. The attacks lost strength amid heavy rains, which are still pouring down over the entire area. More Germans were taken prisoner's in the latest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burns noticed on the arm of a small boy by his parents led to the disclosure that he and four companions, all under six years of age, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wilcannia Powerhouse and pumping station at Wilcannia was completely destroyed by fire yesterday,and the town is without water or light…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To protect the open cut at Yallourn from fire in the worst possible circumstances an area of five or six mile would have to be burned around it said Harry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fourteen fires, believed to have been caused by a car with a gas producer, were extinguished today by fire brigades in a stretch of five miles between South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators carried out the war's greatest fire raid when they battled through German fighter and ground defences to Berlin yesterday. .About a thousand bombers dropped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Friday last was an evil day for Wilcannia, when a fire destroyed the Provincial Electric Light Company's power house and pumping station, leaving the town without light or water. The Provincial Electric Supply Co. has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London's alert lost night ended before midnight. The raid was comparable with the heaviest of the recent series and appeared largely a fire raising attempt, although high explosives were also dropped. One raider crashed in Homes in an outer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire, which guttered a large part of a chemical factory at Rosebery early to-day, causing damage estimated at more than £10,000, resulted in the death of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wood and iron shed at the rear of the Theatre Royal Hotel, Argent Street, was damaged by fire about 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious fire was narrowly averted on Sunday last, 19th instant, when an electric Kelvinator installed in the home of Mr. Eric Crisp caught fire. Mrs. Crisp,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Glamouralls" is the appropriate title given to the new drill uniforms which will be worn by local members of the Women's Auxiliary Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 2.30 on Saturday the Fire Brigade was called to Dyer and James' stables. Before the flames were extinguished some damage had been done to the rear wall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Central Fire Brigade answered a call to Rowe Street, Railway Town, at 2.31 on Saturday afternoon, when a fire broke out in a stable attached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE.—Mrs. Mary Madigan (80), invalid pensioner, was burned to death when her house was destroyed by fire at Myers Flat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE.—In his report on the Yallourn fires last night judge Stretton said that there was no genoral plan of any real value to protect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.—Extensive Allied air activity announced in today's communique includes another heavy raid on Wewak, New Guinea. 178 tons of bombs being drooped on enemy instal lations at But and Dagua. Six…
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