Lightning Starts Fire
WAGGA Wed.—Seven youths who saw a grass fire started by lightinlog courageously fought the blase for half a mile before…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
454 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 23
Tommy-Gunners Fire At Laval
LONDON Jan. 11.—Tommy-gunners fired at the Vichy Premier, Laval on Saturday as he was driving with the German…
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SYDNEY Thurs.—The Chief Secretary, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, on the recommendation of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee, and…
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The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, said that for some time past he and the [?]es Advisory Committee had been rightly emphasising the…
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MELBOURNE Sat—At least 14 persons are known to have lost their lives and at least 368 homes were destroyed yesterday in one of the worst days of the bush fires in Victoria. Several townships were wiped out…
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The disastrous bush fires in Victoria have now caused 19 deaths, all of which have been officially confirmed. An…
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SYDNEY Monday. — One fire+-fighter lost his life, eleven persons sons were injured, 20,000 acres of valuable grazing lands were…
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WAGGA Mon.— About 8000 sheep ere believed to have been destroyed in a fire which raged in the Bethungra…
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CANBERRA Monday. — The Minister for Commerce, Mr. Scully, stated that the Commonwealth Government regarded the…
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Thousands of sheep have been killed and many acres of grazing land, buildings, fences and havstacks were destroyed by bush fires near…
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MELBOURNE Monday—A tremendous area of country has been laid bare by the bush fires that swept Victoria. The material damage caused is even greater than that wrought in the disastrous 1939 fires…
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SYDNEY Tuesday—Aided by soldiers equipped with mobile fire-fighting equipment and water tanks, thousands of residents in…
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In the tremendous area of country laid waste, the number of homes destroyed and the staggering number of…
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A Commonwealth grant of £200,000 is to be made available for relief of those who suffer losses through bush fires. Nothing more completely baffles one…
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A record of the activities of Cessnock Fire Brigade during 1943 reveals that there were 46 calls attended to. Of these, 33 were actual fires and 13…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cootamundra Fires Soldiers and Residents Fighting Flames
Aided by soldiers equipped with mobile fire-fighting equipment, thousands of residents in Cootamundra district to-day continued…
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Many homes, hundreds of acres of crops, fencing, and power lines have been destroyed by bushfires northwest of Melbourne. The fires are…
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The annual general meeting was held at the Mooby Bridge, Puen Buen, on Saturday 15th inst. at 10.30 a.m…
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CANBERRA Tuesday—A Commonwealth grant of £200,000 to meet the immediate effect of damage caused by bushfires, was…
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SYDNEY Wednesday. — The Chief Secretary (Mr. J. M. Baddeley), referring to the bush-fires in the south-western area of the…
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