Fires Still Burning in Mountains
SYDNEY: Civil Aviation officials this morning had to divert three overseas airliners from Mascot to Dubbo…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
430 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 22
Fire Guts Load on Lorry
Damage estimated at £3000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the load on a lorry yesterday…
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Grass fires kept local brigades busy throughout yesterday afternoon. Knapsack sprays were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Busy Month for Fires
Maitland and East Maitland Fire Brigades were called out to 24 fires last month…
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BINGHAMTON (N.Y.): A young family of. five died today in a naming third-floor flat, after an oil stove…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mt. Victoria. Threatened by Fire. Sydney
The Blue Mountains town, mt. Victoria, in to-day being threatened by bush fires which have been swept into fury again by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Warning to Kurri Residents Townspeople In Fire Fight With Brigade
KURRI: A police officer said to-day that a lack of pride and civic interest could cause a major fire in Kurri, which would destroy a number of homes. He was commenting an a grass fire which sprang…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Threat to Mt. Victoria Wind Fans Outbreak Into Fury Again
SYDNEY: The western Blue Mountains town of Mt. Victoria to-day is being threatened by bushfires, which hove been swept into fury again by a northwest wind…
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To help relieve distress caused by- disastrous bushfires in the Blue Mountain and South Coast districts,…
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Melbourne: A woman was burnt to death [?] at least nine other people were injured, two critically, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Watch for Fires
Residents in the Broke district are keeping a close watch on smouldering logs and trees in areas that were…
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The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, yesterday issued a proclamation', prohibiting the lighting of all fires in the…
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CANBERRA: Mr. J. Bate, M.E.R. is seeking a Royal Commission into bushfires. He wants the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Near Monkerai Tunnel
Police, forestry men and civilians from Dungog on Sunday prevented a big grass fire near Monkerai Tunnel, four miles from town, from entering…
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A grass [?] the bank of the [?] Church-street, [?] last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£8000 Fire Damage to Train
This extraordinary snap" of the fire which damaged the Armidale Express last week shows the dense volume of smoke rising from the power van which, it is thought caught fire from an electricity "short." (See story on Page 4). Our picture was taken by Mr. Ron-Harvey, well-known Northern commercial traveller, who happened to be…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. —More than 200 residents of the village of Barnya, east of Albury, early today took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Fund Opened in Maitland Chance To Repay Help Of Other Days
By adoption last night of a mayoral minute, Maitland City Council opened a fund to relieve distress suffered by victims of the recent and present State-wide devastating bushfires…
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MELBOURNE: Mr. Reg Kemp, who was severely burned at Macedon yesterday, when trapped by…
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SYDNEY: More than 200 residents of the village of Branya, east of Albury, early to-day took refuge in a weir from a raging bushfire. The entire population of the village has been…
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