12,000 Bombs in a Forest Fire
PARIS Friday: Police requisitioned all available vehicles to evacuate women and children from a radius…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
183 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 10
French Fires
BORDEAUX: At least thirty persons have lost their lives in French forest fires and final figures will exceed 100, it is…
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ORANGE: A fire early yesterday morning caused damage estimated at £8000 to the Orange Producers' Rural…
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SYDNEY: Five men and a young girl were injured in a fire which gutted the top floor of Albert Buildings, in…
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Considerable damage was caused late on Saturday afternoon when five rooms of the "Quialago" homestead, 13 miles from Goulburn on the Windellama Road, were destroyed by fire…
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BUNDANOON: A man made heroic dashes through flames early this morning to rescue children trapped in a fire which destroyed a number of Park Holiday flats…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Tired smoke-blackened by fire, French fighters and troops yesterday found more charred bodies in the smoldering ashes of trees and undergrowth, bringing the total death-roll in the Lands region to about 230…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday: The huge forest fires are still raging out of control over vast areas of the United States and…
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FREMANTLE: The [?]re which broke out in the hold of the: British ship, Avis Moat, after, several explosions, was…
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Goulburn citizens have become so used to wandering about in darkened streets, that, now lighting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Body Severely Burnt When He Fell Into Open Fire
Eric Haydon (50), a stranger to Boorowa, was severely burnt about the body when he accidentally fell into a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Landholders Asked to Prepare Firebrakes Around Haystacks and Buildings Bushfire Delegates' Conference Recommendations to Boorowa Shire Council
"That the Shire Council be recommended to seek the co-operation of landholders in clearing fire breaks round haystacks and buildings, and that landholders be urged to place their own fire-fighting equipment in readiness for the…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade last night was called to extinguish two chimney fires, The first call came from the…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to extinguish a fire in an outbuilding at North Goulburn Public School on Saturday…
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Footballers don't think amusement tax is so "amusing" these days. It is understood that the department…
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A 16-year-old boy remanded in custody to a juvenile court at Nottingham, was said to have started a £2000 fire in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →City Council And Fire Hydrants
Speaking at a meeting of the Goulburn City Council last night, Alderman F. D. Davies said he had noticed that council employees often had difficulty in attaching hoses to hydrants in the street, because cars were parked on top or…
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In a letter to the Yarrowlumla Shire Council last' Wednesday, the Queanbeyan branch of the St. John Ambulance…
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Nienty- Four-Year-Old Mrs. Eliza Neave, of Gisieham. Suffolk, beat out a hedge fire adjoining her garden with a…
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At the annual meeting of the Gunning Shire Bush Fire Brigade a demonstration was given of the recently purchased fire fighting…
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