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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 9 of 15

Grass Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 August 1951 · page 3

Goulburn's first grass fire of the season occurred early yesterday afternoon, when the Fire Brigade was called to a burning…

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Fire in Hotel

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: A woman was rescued from an upstairs window when fire broke out in the Royal Standard Hotel,…

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Boorowa Bush Fire, Brigade Conference Set Down For Sept. 15th

Boorowa News · Friday 31 August 1951 · page 5

In his report to Monday's meeting of Boorowa Shire Council, the Clerk (Mr. C. W. Kenny) stated that the…

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Hotel Room Fire Police Seeking Two Men

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 31 August 1951 · page 4

A fire in a bedroom at the Goulburn Hotel last night caused damage estimated at £30…

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Woman Maniac Fires Again

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE: A woman maniae. who shot a Roman Catholic priest on Friday tired a shot at a doctor's wife at Toorak early to-day. She is Mrs. Guy Springthorpe,…

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Eastgrove Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade has received three calls to one area of grass in Eastgrove within five days…

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Thanks to Fire Brigade

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 2

The Yass Fire Brigade has received letters of thanks from two local residents expressing appreciation for prompt action…

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Record Year For Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 September 1951 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade has attended a record number of fire calls during the past eight months…

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Fire Bug

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police are searching for a firebug responsible for a fire in a cottage at Brookvale last night…

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Lucky Save When Car Catches Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 September 1951 · page 8

Whilst returning to his home at the week-end, Mr. J. A. Duncan had an unpleasant experience when the ignition wires in his…

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Britain's Biggest Oil Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 5

LONDON: Great orange pillars of flame, visible 100 miles away, toward above the Gloueestershire town of Avonmouth last night as hundreds of firemen battle desperately to control the biggest oil fire ever to occur in Britain…

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Seven Lost in Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 5

QUEBEC: Lager Lapierre, his wife and five of their seven children, were burned to death at Sept [?]es early…

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Bombala Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 5

BOMBALA: Brigadesmen prevented a spectacular cafe fire from spreading to the adjoining Imperial Hotel at 5.30 p.m…

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From Everywhere Proposed Fire Station

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 2

The Board of Fire Commissioners is making inquiries with a view of obtaining part of a vacant allotment opposite the…

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£30,000 Cost After Railway Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 1

Equipment at South Goulburn locomotive yards destroyed last April by a spectacular fire has been replaced at a cost of nearly £30,000 Oil buring engines are now…

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Bush Fire Brigades Conference

Boorowa News · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 2

A Bush Fire Brigades Conference will be held at the Boorowa Council Chambers in the afternoon, at 2.30 p.m…

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Fire Calls

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 September 1951 · page 5

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to a grass fire on Saturday night, when an area of thick growth in Victoria Park caught…

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Home for Aged on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 September 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK: Three elderly women were burned to death and over a score injured when flames swept through a two-storey wooden building used as a nursing home for the aged at Colesville, Maryland, yesterday…

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Homestead at Bigga Destroyed by Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 September 1951 · page 3

The homestead on Mr. Frank Hammond's "Mansfield" property, eight miles from Bigga, on the Grabine Road, was completely gutted by fire last Wednesday morning. Mr. Hammond Snr. was an inmate of the…

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Bush Fire Danger Period Left to Discretion of Shire Council Delegates Confer

Boorowa News · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 1

At a conference of Boorowa District Bush Fire Brigades delegates held at the Council Chambers on…

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