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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
533 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 27
SYDNEY: Smoke have from bushfires to-day closed every civil and R.A.A.F. airfield in the Sydney area for more than four hours. Shortly after 6.30 a.m. air operations ceased…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday —Smoke from bushfires in the vicinity of Sydney closed airfields for more than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual meeting of Denman District Bush Fire Brigade was held on Thursday evening last. There was a record attendance,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Muswellbrook Shire Council has received telegraphic advice from the Chief Secreary's Department that the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Over 46,000 gallons of water were used by Cessnock Fire Brigade to extinguish fires over the week-end and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TOKYO: The Allies in Korea have settled down a long siege in the cease-fire talks—deadlocked over when to draw a truce line between the armies in the field…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Machinery worth £15,500 was a total loss following a bush fire at Surveyor's Creek during the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A woman was seve[?]y burned and her husband injured when a car back-fired and started a grass fire at Broadwaters, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Property owners in the Seaham, Glen Oak and Raymond Terrace areas were to-day standing guard ever several fires which are burning in the areas. A Shire Council truck and private conveyances are standing by with tanks of water, and those keeping watch ore equipped with knapsack sprays and fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The value of the Bush Fire Brigade Movement was amply demonstrated recently when Parkville Brigade was called to a blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MAITLAND.— A rabbiter who set fire to fern and grass on Deadman's Creek, near Seaham, on Saturday, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIDNEY: Firelighters saved the Blue Mountains town of Wentworth Falls being ravaged by bush fine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nearly 12 local Forestry men were called out to fight a fire on private property at Main Creek last Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recently George Pearson, 26, of Karuah, when attempting to start his launch was severely burned on the face, arms and legs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday last, a rabbiter lit four separate fires at Deadman's Creek, near Seaham to smoke out a ferret, which had not comes out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. FORECAST: Strong and cooler west to southwest winds, with gales in the south-east and gale force…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Warmer weather and squally winds to-day caused bushfires to flare up again in the north-west areas of the State. In the Baradine and Narrabri districts, fires,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A grim fight is being waged in the Denman district to prevent the bushfires, which are raging in the hills, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Every person in the community must take part in fire prevention if the bushfire menace was to be controlled in years to come, the chairman of the Board of fire Commissioners (Mr. T. S. Smith) said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bush fire which broke out on Bow Reserve about 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, could easily have assumed alarming…
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