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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
336 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 17
MlTTAGONG: A thousand exhausted, smokegrimed firefighters are staging a grim battle against terrific odds in an endeavour to hold back a wall of flame which threatens five villages north of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The value of bush fire brigades was demonstrated at Wombo when the promptness and efficiency of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallarobba Shire Council at its last meeting in Dungog, discussed the present bushfire danger…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →December 1953 will not be forgotten for a very long time. The rail smash at Sydenham when two electric trains, crowded with Xmas shoppers and workers returning home collided, with two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Sawmill in Cressnock Head-road in the Kempsey district, was damaged by fire last night Damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A home owned by Mr. H. Higgins, at Wootton, was burnt to the ground last Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What makes water wetter? That's not a frivolous question, and neither is the answer. Wetter water may…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Commissioner for Forests, Mr. E. L. S. Hudson, said recently that most fires which caused damage to State…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Sunday last fire broke out in Glen William country where a tree was struck by lightning in the "dry" storm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LOS ANGELES: Damage running, info hundreds of thousands of pounds is feared from two forest [?] which,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Fire Officers today praised workmen at Fender and Fosters, East Maitland, who extinguished a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGLETON: When a vat[?] caught fire on the afternoon of Christmas day in a boiling down shed at Clyd[?]dale, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOLYOAKE : (Massachusetts): A fire which a fire brigade official said “must have been set” by an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LOS ANGLES Firelight [?] yesterday fought walls of me and failing bouiders in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: A man who shouted, “My God, my baby” and dashed into a buring building was not seen alive again Burwood Corner’s Court was told to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The usual Xmas Day calm was disturbed by the sounding of the siren from the fire station, when a fire broke out at the Coal Co.'s…
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