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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1955

14 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Renovations Of Fire Stations

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 5

Advised that its 1955 compulsory contribution to the funds of the Board of Fire Commissioners would be…

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Spirit Fire Burns Girl

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 1

A RICHMOND schoolgirl sustained bums when a bottle of spirit she was carrying caught fire at her…

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Power Lines As Fire Hazard

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 3

A complaint from the Ebenezer Bush Fire Brigade that slack electricity wires in its area comprised a fire hazard…

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Mow To Use New Fire Call Boxes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 February 1955 · page 8

NOW that the previous mechanical type of fire alarms at Windsor have been replaced by the…

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Pocket-Size Fire Extinguisher

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 1

There is no danger of a fire in the office when this secretary is around—she carries her own fire extinguisher. The model she is putting into her handbag is manufactured hy a Glasgow firm and will be demonstrated…

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Fire Damages Nurses' Home

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 July 1955 · page 14

A fire on Saturday morning in the boiler room in the nurses' home at Windsor damaged the ceiling and electrical…

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EDITORIAL Beat Bush Fires Now

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 August 1955 · page 1

A SCORCHING westerly wind, a pall of smoke over the district hiding the destruction within, pastures and property disappearing in a wall of advancing flame, the wild regret of…

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Good Save by Fire Brigade

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 August 1955 · page 1

Richmond fire brigade was called out on Tuesday afternoon to a heap of burning waste which looked like…

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Explanation Of Sawdust Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 August 1955 · page 8

Having, on the instruction of the Windsor Council, investigated a complaint of a nuisance caused by burning…

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Local Control Of Bush Fire Measures

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 September 1955 · page 11

"SHIRE Councils consider there should be a blanket bush fire danger proclamation over the whole…

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Bush Fire Districts

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 October 1955 · page 4

For the purpose of bush fire proclamations—which will mention climatic districts only—residents are…

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Fire Lighting Proclamation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 October 1955 · page 10

An official circular received by Windsor Council at its September meeting drew attention to a general…

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Famous Old Home At Tizzana Destroyed By Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 October 1955 · page 1

A SPECTACULAR fire, by fierce flames and dense clouds of smoke billowing hundreds…

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Man Badly Burned Fighting Store Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 November 1955 · page 1

Helping to fight a fire at Windsor, In the rear of business premises near his place of employment, yesterday, a young man was badly burned and…

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