Fire Destroys Home, Contents
A fire completely gutted the kitchen and bathroom and adjoining lobby of a cottage at 354 Beryl Street yesterday afternoon. The lounge room was also…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
455 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 23
Canopus Fire Still Burns
Reports received u to 9 a.m. today at the Joying Doctor Base stated that a grass fire is still burning…
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Two rooms were serverely damaged and one room slightly damaged by fire and water when a wood and iron cottage caught…
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A fire completely gutted the kitchen and bathroom and adjoining lobby of a cottage at 354 Beryl Street yesterday afternoon. The lounge room was also…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The Tale Of The Buried Fire Hydrants"
This is a tale designed to show how even the simplest inquiries in the newspaper business can sometimes develop complications It started when a senior member of the staff noticed that some fire hydrants…
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Sydney—The Bushfires Committee was rebuked by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt) for suggesting that the Blue Mountains Council had not taken the proper…
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Sydney — Five major bushfires in N.S.W. have caused thousands of pounds damage and have burnt out many square miles of bushland…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call a Bonanza Street at 1.58 p.m. yesterday, where a motor lorry was on fire. The…
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Sydney, November 7.—Disastrous bushfires broke out again today in valuable grazing land and…
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Sydney.—Thousands of sheep miles of fencing and valuable timber reserves have been destroyed by bush fires in north-west N.S.W. A huge area of a triangle from Baradine tb Goodooga, on hhe Queensland border, and down to Bourke, is ablaze and other…
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Sydney.—Damage already caused by busliflres in the past week is estimated at more than £5,000,000…
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Sydney—An elderly woman saturated her bed with kerosene, set it alight, and…
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Sydney. November 8.—Nearly 750.000 acres of grazing land and forests have been destroyed by fire in north-western N.S.W. during the…
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IN HOSPITAL again, but still smiling, is Sydney showgirl June Croker, who Has badly burnt in a fire a[?]…
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New York, November 9— Twelve seamen are dead or missing after a ship fire oil the Pacific coast…
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Sydney, November 9.—Three new bushfires broke out tonight in the Baradine State Forest. The fires…
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A wood and iron shed at the back of premises at 439 Blende Street which caught fire today was extinguished…
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Mr. C. Crowley. Town Clerk, yesterday received advice from the Chief Secretary that, in accordance with his powers under…
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At 9.20 a.m. today, the South Brigade was called to 111 Patton Street, where a chimney was on fire. The…
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A fire which broke out in a shed at the rear of Mrs. E. P. Anderson's store at 4[?] Blende Street, yesterday was extinguished…
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