Rubbish Fire
Firemen quelled a rubbish fire with buckets of water near the front of the B.I.U. Band room shortly after…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
393 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 20 of 20
Fire Sets off Cartridges
Melbourne: A fire in a small storehouse at Bendigo set off hundreds of rounds of.303 ammunition…
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Wagga: A fire near here left a man. his wife and three children homeless and with only the clothes they had on…
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Sydney: Parts of several far South Coast districts are a raging inferno as bush fires…
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At 11.14 a.m. yesterday the Central Fire. Brigade was called to a small fire burning on railway property on the…
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Benalla: Two men, both of no fixed abode, were sentenced in Benalla Court to three months' gaol for…
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Sydney: Firefighters yesterday ploughed through a blazing forest in a bulldozer to break free from an encircling ring of fire…
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Sydney, December 22.—Fears are held for the safety of seven families in the New[?]-Lighgow area, where a bushfire is raging uncontrolled…
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Sydney, December 23.—Rain on the South Coast fire areas has eased the immediate danger. Cooler weather on the North…
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Melbourne—A spectacular fire roared through the main pavilion of Wirth's Olympia, near Prince's Bridge, Melbourne, yesterday morning, causing…
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Sydney—A cool southerly change has saved scores of houses from bushfires which have been raging in many N.S.W. districts for several days. Today all fires…
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Sydney, Dec. 28: All bushfires on the South Coast, the Blue Mountains and North…
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Sydney. December 30—The Chief Secretary, Mr. Kelly, today banned the lighting of fires in the open air in the…
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