Fire Started by Lightning
A resident of Stratford given an instance of how a bush fire can start without the aid of matches or a cigarette butt…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
430 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 22
Control of Fires in Military Camp Areas More Co-operation Needed With Bush Brigades
SINGLETON: At the Patrick Pla[?] Shire Council meeting Cr. H. H. Hobden asked who should control bushfires in the military camp area He said a fire there lost week burnt out a large…
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WELLINGTON: High temperatures were reported from many place in New Zealand at the week-end, and in the…
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A shortage of practically all basic food is threatened throughout New South Wales as a result of bush fires, which to-day…
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SCONE.—Four hundred acres of grass were burnt in a fire started by lightning on Mr. G. Mullin's property at Rouchel…
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THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. Clive Evatt) announced today that he had extended the…
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The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, announced last week that he had extended the prohibition, throughout the State of New…
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MINNEAPOLIS: Thirteen persons were missing yesterday after flames roared through a three–[?]toreyed block…
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A railway van containing explosives was threatened by a grass fire near Weston Railway Station on…
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SYDNEY: Shortage of practically all basic feeds threatened throughout New South Wales as a result the bushfires, which to–day continue to devastate huge areas of valuable food producing country…
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Mr. J. G. Beale. M.L.A.. and Mr. H. J. Bate, Commonwealth representative on the State Bushfire and Flood Relief…
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SINGLETON: The brake van of the Northern Tablelands Express was burnt out near Belford about noon…
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Damage estimated between £8,000 and £10,000 was done when the combined luggage and power…
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Singleton Municipal Council have been asked by the Board of Fire Commissioner's to consider widening the…
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Rain which fell on a 200-mile coastal strip between Nowra and Eden on Sunday damped down the great bushfires which have brought…
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Fire gutted live of [?]n rooms of a weatherboard [?]ttage in Abbot-street yesterday afternoon…
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A large area of grass, set slight by a spark, from a [?]ocomotive, was burnt at Wentworth-street, Telarah,…
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SYDNEY: The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said to-day the Commonwealth Government was prepared to make a sustained contribution for relief of persons in fire-stricken areas…
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MONTREAL: A mother and sir of her eight children died yesterday when [?] by [?]…
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MINNEAPOLIS: Firemen yesterday recovered the 17th and last body from the charred ruins of a burnt-out block of…
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