Rubbish Fire
At 1.27 p.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to a rubbish fire on vacant land at the rear of the Palace Hotel. The fire was quickly…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
373 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 19
Spark Cause of £12,000 Trailer Fire
Canberra.—Damage estimated at £12,000 was caused when a spark from the exhaust set fire to a semi-trailer on the Cooma road several miles from…
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70,000 acres of pastures were destroyed in a disastrous grass fire which swept an area 15 miles by 8 miles at Whyjonta Station 190 miles north-east of the city yesterday. The recently…
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Spotting aircraft played an important part in controlling the grass fire which swept an area of 15 miles by eight miles at Whyjonta Station yesterday. About 70,000 acres of pasture…
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Adelaide, January 16.—A newspaper office, a cafe and a residential were gutted in a £15,000 fire at Alice Springs early today. The paper, the…
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Melbourne. — The spectacular, fire which destroyed huge quantities of wool, tallow and skins at…
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Firefighters who fought the bush fire at Whyjonta on Sunday went into action again last night and controlled a five-mile front of blazing grass— the area of Salisbury Downs Station…
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Melbourne.—Thousands of bales of wool and large quantities of tallow and hides were destroyed in a spectacular fire which gutted the Wool Realisation Stores shed at Footscray last night. Total…
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A bush fire was reported to local police from Salisbury Downs Station about 10.45 o'clock last night. Reports stated that the fire was burning on a five mile…
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The South Fire Brigade today attended a small fire in the laundry at the home of Mr. J. Mason, of 22 Rainbow Avenue…
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Fire fighters at Salisbury Downs Station have extinguished the grass fire. They are now held up by rain…
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About 150 2-year-old trees and shrubs were totally destroyed when a grass fire broke out on the Aerodrome Road near Allison's…
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Both the Central and South Fire Brigades attended a grass fire near the Aerodrome last night. The call was received at 5.15 p.m. to a fire in a large…
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Yesterday the Flying Doctor plant reported to the base that an area of approximately 50 square miles vas searched in the vicinity of the second reported…
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The South Fire Brigade answered a call yesterday at 13.29 p.m. to 22 Rainbow Avenue, where there was a small fire in the laundry at the rear of the…
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70,000 acres of pastures were destroyed in a disastrous grass fire which swept an area 15 miles by 8 miles at Whyionta Station 190 miles north-east of the city on Sunday. The recently…
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The third bushfire in the north western district of New South Wales in less than a week broke out on Lake Stewart property yesterday afternoon. Reports last night stated that the fire had a frontage of about five miles by about fifteen…
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At 7.25 a.m. today the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 62 Cummins Street, premises occupied by Mrs. C. T. Stokes. The…
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Shortly after 3 p.m. yesterday Mr. G. G. Berry, owner of Lake Stewart Station, reported to the Flying Doctor Base the third grass fire in the Broken Hill-Tibooburra area within a week…
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The Lake Stewart bushfire which broke out on Friday afternoon was under control by Friday night with only a comparatively small area of land suffering by the blaze. The area was partoiled over the week-end to keep a watch for…
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