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

Fires & bushfires, 1951

289 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 15

Explosion, Fire At Hospital

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 5

An explosion in a gas stove at the Goulburn District Hospital kitchen last night caused a fire which destroyed several…

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Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 6

Goulburn Fire Brigade attended two small fires yesterday afternoon. The first call was to a Clifford Street residence,…

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Detonator Cap in Fire Boy's Lucky Escape

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 2

A nine year old boy had a lucky escape from serious injury when an explosion occurred in a fire at Yass Junction on Saturday…

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Fire Calls Almost Double This Year

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade answered a record number of calls during the first six months of this year. The brigade turned out to 106 fire calls. Only 58 occurred…

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Fire Calls

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 7

Goulburn Fire Brigade attended another false alarm yesterday afternoon. Vandals called the brigade to the corner of…

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Grass Fire in Winter

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade attended a large grass fire on Friday evening, about three hours after light rain had fallen…

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Attended 47 Fires in Two Years Vol.-Fireman Bill Garrety Farewelled

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

VOLl.-FIREMAN BILL GARRETY who leaves Yass today for Carcoar, attended 47 fires in two years and seven months. On an…

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Semi-Trailer on Fire Man’s Narrow Escape

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

The driver of a semi-trailer which crashed near a bridge at Berremangra at 5 a.m. on Saturday had a…

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Fire Call

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 4

Goulburn Fire Brigade attended a chimney fire last night A citizen went to the station to report the fire which was…

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Bundanoon Golf House Gutted By Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: The failure of the water supply prevented firemen saving the golf club house at Bundancon Guest House from…

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School Set on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 3

LITHGOW: Leslie James Rank, 24, schoolteacher, was committed for trial on a charge of having maliciously set fire to…

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Another False Fire Alarm Idiotic Behaviour

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 2

THE SOUNDING of the fire siren about 10.45 on Friday night was another false alarm. This is the…

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Fighting Fire And Water In Kansas

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 5

KANSAS CITY, Sunday: A steady recession of the fIoodwaters of the rampaging Missouri and Kansas Rivers yesterday brought new hope to the weary fighters saving water power to supply a…

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Building a Dam to Hold the Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 5

NEW YORK, Monday: Although the twin cities of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, appeared to be winning their fight to contain the disastrous floods which inundated four…

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Chimney Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 4

Goulburn Fire Brigade extinguished a chimney fire Shortly after eight o'clock last night. The call was received from…

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Saved From Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 7

A man was dragged unconscious from a blazing Moore Park residential this morning after he had been…

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"Cease Fire" Talks Still in Crawling Stages

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 5

MUNSAN (Korea), Wednesday: The United Nations and Communist delegates spent another scorchingly hot day— the fifth Kaesong "cease fire" conference—yesterday, debating the…

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Rubbish Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade used a hydrant and a line of hose to extinguish a rubbish fire at the rear of Goldsmitlh Street…

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Fire Destroys Homestead

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 5

A 14-roomed homestead was totally destroyed by fire at Yarra early last Friday morning…

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Seven Killed in Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 4

SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday: At least seven persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a block of flats here…

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