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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

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All Ready for Plane, But No Fire There

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 May 1951 · page 5

TAMWORTH: Ambulances and firemcn were ready at Tamworth aerodrome to-day when the pilot of a T.A.A…

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Grass Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade received calls to two grass fires on Saturday afternoon. The fires were at the Church of England…

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Fire Extinguishers For Shire Trucks

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 1

At last week’s meeting of Goodradigbee Shire Council, the engineer, Mr. S. H. Liddicoat, was instructed to purchase fire…

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Fire Brigade Busy On Empire Night

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 1

While thousands of children— and their parents—enjoyed the celebration, Goulburn Fire Brisgade experienced its busiest period for many months…

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Two Fire Calls

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 May 1951 · page 3

Goulburn Fire Brigade received two calls yesterday. They were a malicious false alarm from a box at the corner of Bradley…

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Chimney Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 May 1951 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to 420 Auburn Street last night to extinguish a chimney fire…

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Vandenberg Under Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 May 1951 · page 5

WASHIINGTON, Tuesday: Air power was rendered practically inoperative when the United…

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23 Die in Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 5

TOKYO, Monday: Twenty three girl silk workers were burned to death when fire broke out during a party…

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Grass Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 June 1951 · page 7

Goulburn Fire Brigade turned out to a grass fire early last night. The brigade extinguished a large area of burning grass in…

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Police Warning on Fire Engine Right

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 June 1951 · page 1

Inspector E. W. Freeman, officer-in-charge of Goulburn police, to-day warned motorists that they must allow fire engines right of way. Inspector Freeman said that…

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Fire In Starch Factory

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: A starch making plant at Roseberry, was damaged by fire last night. The fire broke out in a boiler…

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Car on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 1

A tourer car was slightly damaged by frie in Auburn Street this morning. The owner of the car, a…

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Detectives As Fire Fighters

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Detectives who were cruising through the suburbs in a car last night saved a stolen car they found blazing…

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Petrol Fire Kills Five

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 5

HAVANA, CUBA, Monday: At least five men have been killed and 11 injured in a raging petrol fire that swept for a mile…

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Close Escape From Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 5

KATOOMBA: A man, his wife and their baby escaped down a blazing staircase after being trapped by fire in their…

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£15,000 Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: A fire in the premises of Donson Products, Ltd., Marrickville, this morning caused damage estimated at…

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Fractured Ankle Fireman Slipped on Way to Fire

Yass Tribune-Courier · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 4

Fireman Percy Burden, of Rossi Street, slipped on the wet steps at his home when hurrying to a fire on Tuesday night, and…

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Kitchen Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 June 1951 · page 4

A quantity of clothes drying in front of a fuel stove at 30 Soane Street on Friday afternoon was a most destroyed by…

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Persian Oil Blaze

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 4

The farther the Persian trouble goes the worse it gets and, it might be fairly added, the more…

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Fire in Home

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 4

Intense heat from the rear of a fireplace was the apparent cause of a fire which destroyed a quantity of wall panelling at…

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