Heat and Bushfires Maxwell Creek Area Burnt
The intense beat that has characterised the past few days prevailed again at the wek-end, and several outbreaks of bushfire occurred in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
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Bush Fires in the State Where Does the Blame Lay? Sydney
Representatives of farmers and graziers' organisations and fire officials to-day repudiated the charge that carelessness of…
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At the last meeting of Dungog Municipal Council, several aldermen deplored the obsolete equipment which the Dungog Fire Brigade was forced…
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The Stage Premier Mr. Mair. today appeared to motorist to last a for old bags in the [?] when [?] go to the country, [?] that they could…
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Mrs. Catherine Fryer, 80, was sitting on the verandah of her home at Narellan last night when a fire occurred…
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Alter having the Bush Fire Advisory Committee’s scheme explained by representatives of Tarro Shire Council, a meeting…
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Murrurundi has had two disastrous fires within a few days. On Saturday afternoon last a fire broke out in the premises occupied…
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NO damage was done when a grass fire broke out on vacant land in Pearce-street, East Maitland, near the Maitland Boys’ High School…
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Acknowledgment of Council's request for the provision of a new and more efficient fire engine at Dungog was received at Tuesday night's…
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The Shire President (Cr. P. Saxton), at this week's meeting of the Kearsley Shire Council, complained that when a fire…
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During the hot weather at the beginning of the week at Raymond Terrace, numerous fires caused worry to property owners…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Blaze In Germany LONDON, Feb, 4
The official German news agency states that explosions and a big blaze heard and seen from Basle on Friday…
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When petrol caught alight and set fire to their clothes at a garage at Faulconbridge, Gilbert Broomhead, 29, of Roland Avenue, Springwood…
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When a cigarette was thrown out of the Wagga-Tumbarumba train at Umbango on Friday, 40 acres of grass were burned…
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Investigators are of opinion that the fire which early this morning destroyed Hetton-Bell-bird Company’s coal conveyor at…
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William John Dawson, 18, of Cairns, a passenger in a delivery van, was fatally wounded by a sentry near a petrol tank at…
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According to [?] brigade officers, the damage caused by the fire at Nicholson’s Building, George-street, yesterday morning, is not expected…
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A runaway truck, which was laden with timber, caught fire and was destroyed after it crashed into a tree near Cooranbong. Ernest Wamsley,…
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Members of the arson squad of the C.I.B. are investigating a fire which destroyed Nicholson's warehouse in George Street, Sydney, early…
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