1500 Acres Burnt Out All Day Fight with Fire
Volunteers and area bush fire brigades fought most of yesterday to bring under control a fire which started about one mile from No. 2 Colliery east of Muswellbrook and swept…
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Fires & bushfires, 1955
75 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 4
Grass Fire Near Singleton
SINGLETON: Singleton Fire Brigade was called out yesterday afternoon to fight a grass fire which broke out in a…
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SYDNEY: New South Wales with the exception of the north coast was a bushfire volcano waiting to go up, the chairman…
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Maitland Fire Brigade was called out at lunch time to-day to a small fire on an old wooden railway…
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MELBOURNE: A case factory and a nine-roomed house were gutted to a spectacular fire at Vermont, an outer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lives Were Risked in Fire Fight
SYDNEY: Almost every available man woman and child in Treadle spent four desperate hours fighting a fire…
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SINGLETON: A fire at the Singleton Military Camp burned down a tent. Singleton Fire Brigade was…
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SINGLETON: Singleton police will take action in connection with a grassfire that started in Greenwood-lane on…
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NEWCASTLE: Twenty-five passengers miraculously escaped death when the engine and superstructure of a bus caught…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extreme Bush Fire Danger Utmost Precaution Needed
The hot and dry conditions have caused an extreme bush fire danger throughout the Merriwa district, and it behoves every member of the community to take the utmost precaution to…
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SYDNEY: A huge bushfire, raging on a 20-miles front, is low threatening the Moreton Reserve, Moss Vale…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Men Injured in Stadium Fire
MELBOURNE: Three firemen were injured in a fire which gutted West Melbourne Stadium early today, causing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Maps Available
The Shire Council has made available detailed maps of the bushfire zones in the Shire. Each map…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red China Against Cease Fire
HONGKONG: Communist China “absolutely cannot agree to a [?]re” in the present conflict with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Floods Gutted in Sydney Fire
SYDNEY: A fire early to-day gutted three floors of a five-storeyed building in the city, and caused about £60,000…
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NEW YORK: Eleven children and the father of five of them perished in a fire that destroyed a block of old flats…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red China Rejects Invitation to Attend U.n. Council Meeting on Cease-fire
WASHINGTON: Rejection by Communist China of the United Nations’ invitation to her to take part in the Security Council’s projected debate on a Formosan Strait cease-fire has evoked reactions of shock and dismay in Western capitals…
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NEW YORK: The Eisenhower administration was now looking to private diplomacy rather than to public debate for the next step in efforts to end the present hostilities in the Formosa area, the Reuter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Possible Formation Of “Fire Brigade” Force To Meet Reds
WASHINGTON: The Australian Prime Ministe[?] (Mr. R. G. Meniies) will discuss in talks here nex[?] month the formation of a “fire brigade” force to dea[?] with flare-ups of Communist trouble in South-Eas[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Motor Cycle Catches Fire
Maitland firemen risked [?] injury last night to put out a fire in a burning motor cycle…
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