Richmond Gets Unit For Bush Fire Fighting
CLAIMED to be as yet the only one of its type in the State, a new fire-fighting unit for…
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Fires & bushfires, 1959
20 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers
Fire Control Officer's Wide Domain
IT seems that a newly appointed fire control officer Blackheath will be extremely busy man…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Trails Cut to Stop Fires
To date 71 miles of trails for checking of bush fires had been cut in the Blue Mountains…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire-Fighting Arrangements At Toorah
SOME interesting developments regarding fire-fighting arrangements in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Destroys Garage At Richmond
The Golf Club Service Station at the comer of Lennox and Bourke Streets, Richmond, was totally destroyed by fire last night (Tuesday). THE Richmond Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extinguished The Blaze
Gazing fixedly at a fierce little blaze of dead match sticks in an ash tray right in the middle of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Famous “Navua” Homestead Razed By Fire
Country home of former Lord Mayors of Sydney and the scene of lavish entertaining the famous 24-room “Navua”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Animosity” In Bush Fire Brigades
HE had been unable to settle the boundary dispute between two bush fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Council Gets £1201 For Fire Control
COLO Shire Council’s allocation for fire-fighting purposes this financial year was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Outback Bush Fire Brigade
Permission of Colo Shire Council to operate a new bush fire brigade in the shire outside the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Hazard
The danger of fire from the dry grass surrounding the Fitzgerald Memorial Home was…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Pump Would Not Work At Church Fire
Ebenezer Bush Fire Brigade had not been able to give its most effective assistance at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Died In Shack Fire At McGrath’s Hill
Firemen shortly after midnight on Saturday extinguished a blaze which destroyed a small shack at McGrath’s Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Councils May Vary Local Fire Danger Periods
In a reminder of the bushfire danger period now operating (October 1 to March 31) the Chief Secretarty (Mr. Kelly)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Council To prosecute Fire Lighters At Depot
Any breach of the prohibition against lighting fires at Windsor rubbish depot will future be met with immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Depot Fire Hazard And “Disgrace”
AS well as consulting a fire hazard, the rubbish depot near Wilberforce was “a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Helicopter To Move Fire Fighters In Test
For the first time in N.S.W. a helicopter will be used to move fire fighters and equipment to a “bush fire,” in a test to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Minister Saw Fire Fighting Test With Helicopter
Watched with close interest by the Minister for Conservation and other high officials, a of moving fire fighters and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Total" Fire Prohibitions Will Be Broadcast
Total prohibitions on lighting fires in the open will be imposed only when urgently necessary, for the "weather climatic…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Helicopter Aids Bushfire Fighters
Airborne help for fire fighters: Two members of Kurrajong Heights Bush Fire Bridge, Previously flown to a bush fire by helicopter, take delivery of a motor pump rushed to the sconce in a further trip by the aircraft, during a demonstration at Kurrajong Heights recently…
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