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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
454 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 23
U.S. [?] the six nozzies of a new fire-fighting truck which is [?] with three tone of liqu[?] carbon d[?]to fight a text fire [?] with 800 ga[?] of oil and wast [?] at the grounds of a U.S. army Air Force centre in the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lale on Saturday afternoon a shed at the [?] of High-street. West Maitland was damaged by fire Post[?] of the buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE Monday—Trapped by a grass fire at Bentleigh, Richard Love, 78,. a pensioner, lost his life. He was camped in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY Wed.—The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, to-day strongly advised shirt councils to use the emergency powers which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members of the Cootamundra branch of Red Cross certainly used their Initiative in the making of applie pies or fire fighters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thieves who broke into three shops in Parramatta Road, Concord, are believed to have been responsible for a fire which caused more than £2000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. soldiers operate the six nozzles of a new fire-fighting truck, which is filled with three tons of liquid carbon dioxide, to fight a test fife fueled with 300 gallons of oil and waste gasoline, at the grounds of a U.S. Army Air Forces centre in the Southern U.S. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINGLETON Friday. — The Singleton Voluntary Fire Brigade quickly extinguished a fire which broke out behind the premises of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]SONE Friday—Air-Gunner Don Barrell, of 'the RAAF, accompanied companied by his wife, has been spending leave with his parents,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire on Wednesday destroyed a shed and a motor lorry at Glendon Brook, on the property of Mr. Peter Boyce. The motor lorry was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All order from the Chief Secretary's Department states that burning off must not be carried out until February 29…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. J. B Tucker honorary secretary, advised Bolwarra Shire Council at its meeting yesterday that a branch of the bush…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE Mon —Resulting from an cutthroat of fire at Dark’s [?] [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The danger from bush fires was considerably reduced early this morning as a result of rain and a change in the wind. Fires which encircled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE Tues.—The danger from bush fires was considerably reduced early this morning as a result of rain and a change…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY Tues.—The Divisional Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) last night issued the following warning of the danger of bush fires:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. J. B. Tucker, honorary secretary, advised Bolwarra Shire Council at its meeting last week that a branch of the bush fire brigade had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The danger from bush fires in Victoria was considerably reduced early this morning as the result of rain and a change in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON Feb. 14. — Many houses in a densely-populated London area were set on fire by German incendiary bombs last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE Tuesday—In disastrous fires which are sweeping parts of Victoria three people, a man and two women, were burned to death. Scores of homes have been destroyed and hundreds of stock perished…
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