Fire Beat Volunteers
Despite, the efforts of 60 residents [?]na buckets, bathtube, dippers, and other dishes, [?] destroyed a house at…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
533 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 27
Big Grass Fire Busies Brigade
Maitland Fire Brigade spent three hours yesterday afternoon quelling a fire, which burnt 20 acres of grass, and…
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LONDON: Great orange oilers of flame, visible 100 miles away, towered above the Gloucestershire town of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Record Oil Fire in Britain. 150,000 Tons Ablaze. London
Great orange pillars of flame, visible 100 miles away, towered over the Gloucestershire town of Avonmouth, last night as…
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SYDNEY: Two women and four young children were rescued by ladder from a fire which damaged a block of…
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LONDON: Britain’s biggest peacetime oil blase in the Avonmouth area of Bristol was virtually brought tinder control…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade extinguished a fire which started in a car in Anstey Street, Cessnock, on Friday night…
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High tension wires leading to Bellbird Colliery were endangered when an electric light pole caught alight after…
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Two black makes were Seen during a grass fire near Aberdare colliery yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY: It is reported that the fire which caused a stock loss of £20,000 at the Cremorne factory of Densihod…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firm "Under Fire" From Shire Refuses to Give Estimate for Tractor Repairs
The well-known firm of Tutt Bryant Pty. Ltd., Sydney, came "under fire" at a meeting of Wallarobba Shire Council in Dungog on…
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SYDNEY: Damage estimated of more than £80,000 was caused by two fires in suburban factories yesterday. The factories were the Maclac Products Pty. Ltd.,…
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TOKYO: General Ridgway informed the Communists to-day that the United Nations was willing to resume…
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Weather Bureau officials to-day repeated their warning of a grass fire danger in many country districts. The Far North…
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A bush fire danger period has been proclaimed under the Bush Fires Act within Stroud Shire until 28th September. During this period, burning…
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Volunteers fought during yesterday morning and afternoon to put out a grass fire on Eelah…
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The Scouts and Cubs as their contribution to the Jubilee festivities will hold a camp fire concert on Friday night, September 21st…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out five times on Wednesday and on two occasions the Kearsley Brigade was…
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A grass fire which swept Hewitt Brothers property at Broke on Wednesday afternoon wiped out nearly 100 acres of high quality grazing land…
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WASHINGTON: A [?]gantle fire Is sweeping through the huge Olymplo National Forest In Washington State, In…
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