Bushfire Danger in State
The whole of N.S.W. with the exception of the coastal area from Nambooa Shire to the Queensland border has been…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
373 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 19
Whole of State Is Bushfire Danger Area; Local Blazes
Almost the whole of New South Wales has been declared a bushfire danger area. A statement was made last night, by radio advising people to take every precaution against causing fresh outbreaks…
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A message received by "The Barrier Miner" today from Wentworth police, said that the fire which started in South Australia last week was 10 to 15 miles in the New South Wales side of the border fence at Pine Camp in the…
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Adelaide — The main north-east S.A. bushfires are about 2 miles [?]part. Firefighters have burnt a break, which is expected to…
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Several independent fires broke away yesterday from the Quondong property grass fire in S.A. Three of them were on the eastern side, and one bad one was on the cast side of the trouble, but last night reports indicated that the main…
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An RAAF Anson from Mallalo, South Australia, joined in the fight against the bushfires raging in that State yesterday. Thirty soldiers in several Army jeeps equipped with radio transceivers and firefighting material have also entered the battle…
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New South Wales land holders near the border are loading equipment and graders and making their way to meeting places near the bushfire from where they can join the firefighters already there in an all-out effort to halt the blaze. Sgl. Newell…
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Fighting a bitter fight against the bushfire which is devastating vast areas of South Australian pastoral areas near the N.S.W. border members of the bushfire fighting unit near Muloornin Station were last night recalled from the fire to…
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Last night a "moderate to high fire hazard" forecast was made for the Murrumbidgee area today…
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Provided that present conditions continue there is every indication that breaks and the efforts of firefighters will bring the main bushfires near the South Australian N.S.W. border under control in the Mutooroo-Oakvale and Canopus…
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Officer in charge of the Central Fire Brigade (Mr. V. Dolman) said today that while answering an urgent call yesterday the fire engine was delayed by traffic near the intersection of Oxide and Chapple Streets…
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Wentworth police reported today that the fire in that vicinity was "under control." Volunteers from Merbein were returning and…
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Although other sections of the S.A. bushfire were under control yesterday the blaze on Canopus property was burning…
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Central Fire Brigade at 8 p.m. on Saturday attended a fire in a shed at the rear of 400 Cobalt street The premises are occupied…
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A grass fire broke out yesterday morning on Purnamoota Station property but caused little damage. Local police were notified and Sgt. Newell…
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London. December 17 — Fruit trees are blossoming in mid win— ter in the River Po Valley. Italy —because an oil gusher has been…
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Damage was caused by a grassfire which broke out on Purnamoota statipn yesterday morning. Sergt. Newell and three other…
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At 8.0 p.m. on Saturday the Central Fire Brigade was called to a store at 400 Cobalt Street, where there was a shed fire slight at the rear of the…
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Adelaide, December 17.—William Quinn (21), farmer, of Yacka, and Ernest Mickel, farmer, of Brinkworth, died to-day as the result of burns received…
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Sydney—Trapped by fire in the upstairs bedroom of a house this morning, an elderly man jumped 20 feet to the ground…
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