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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

437 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 22

Nazis Set Fire Camp

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 June 1946 · page 3

THE HAGUE, June 17.—Four hundred Nazis set fire to an internment camp near Schevaningen Holiand and rushed the gate…

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House Bodly Damaged By Fire

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 June 1946 · page 2

Occupants of a weatherboard cottage at Homerville, which was badly damaged by fire yesterday morning, escaped with only the…

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Quelled Fire on Ship

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Wednesday.— Firemen from headquarters and Circular Quay stations to-day extinguished a fire which broke out…

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Export Meat Damaged by Fire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—A fire at the Metropolitan ice and Cold Storage works -at Pyrmont to-day ruined a large quantity of frozen…

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Town Fire Brigade. Progress Association's Proposal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 3

In March last, the Merriwa Progress Association unanimously decided on the need for the formation of a volunteer fire brigade for the…

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Explosion Causes Fire

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 3

NUREMBERG July 6.—Prisoners and court employees were mobilised to fight afire caused by stove blowing up a kitchen and…

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Mine Fire Under Control-

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Wednesday—The [?] of fire which occured Yesterday in the old workings of cressnock No 2. [?] has been…

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Badly Burned in Gar-fire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed When a, holt shattered the electric light he was using in the task of [?] the petrol tank from a car…

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Motor Cycle Damaged by Fire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 1

Only minor damage was done to a motor cycle, and sidecar which caught alight opposite J T. Pont’s foundry in…

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Feeding That Fire Will Make the Pot Much Hotter

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 4

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Liability for Bush Fire. Not Admitted by Railway Commissioner

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 7

The Railway Commissioner would not accept liability for the disastrous busli fire in the Premer-Spring Ridge-Yarraman district…

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Merriwa District News. Merriwa Volunteer Fire Brigade. Formed at Public Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 4

At a public meeting held in the School of Arts on Friday night, called for the purpose of discussing the formation of a volunteer…

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Volunteer Fire Brigade

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK: At a public meeting held in the Merriwa School of Arts for the purpose or discussing the formation of a…

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Fire in Rubbish

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 2

West Maitland Fire Brigade was called to a fire in rubbish and' grass behind the Maitland Furniture Factory yesterday…

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Charge of Setting Fire to His Home

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Monday.—A man was charged at the Central Court today with having maliciously set fire to his home in Myrtle-st.,…

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£40,000 Damage By Blaze At Petersham

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—More than a million gallons of water was poured into the blazing building of Westgate Rollerdrome,…

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Disastrous Fire in Nova Scotia

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 1

PICTOU (Nova Scotia), July 15.—The worst fire in the history of the town swept through the entire dock area and caused…

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Rabbit Trapper Set Fire to Home

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 4

A rabbit trapper had set fire to his home after drinking methylated [?] with imaginary friends, Police Promoter (Constable Mudford) said at Central…

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Cripple Boy Was Fire Hero

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 1

An 11-year-old crippled boy is a hero to the sailors, Wrens, and the nurses he raced against time to save—dragging his…

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Cessnock Fire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 5

An outbreak of fire occurred on the premises of Kempe and Co. on Wednesday last, and damage to the extent of approximately £25 resulter…

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