Fire Causes Heavy Loss to Town
DORRIG[?]. -- Men and women Joined forces in a bucket brigade and fought a fire for two hours trying to…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
184 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 5 of 10
Mine Fire Is Now Under Control
LITHGOW, Aug. 13. -- It was officially announced this afternoon that a fire which threatened the State coal…
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COFFS HARBOUR. -- Nine banana growers received a total of £26,005 compensation from the New South Wales Commissioner for Railways for fire damage to their plantations, alleged to have been caused by fires started by a…
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Friday last, about midday, a fire broke out in a paddock adjoining Mr. Tom Lavender's home and poultry run at…
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Chairman of the Bush Fire Committee and the fire control officer of the Forestry Commission will visit the North Coast early in…
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The Fire and Accident Underwrites' Association's chief surveyor will carry out an inspection in Gloucester shortly…
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A regional conference of Local Government and other public bodies will be held in conjunction with the State Bush Fire Committee at Taree on August 28. The Gloucester Shire Council…
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LISMORE, Aug. 18: District fire officers last night warned that the present fire danger was the most serious since…
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Stroud Shire will be represented at the bush fire al conference to be held at Taree on August 28. Its…
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Fire destroyed a £10,000 timber mill at Glen Warren (20 miles from Comboyne), yesterday. It belonged to two…
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Kathleen Cooper, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Cooper, of Frederiekton, sustained severe burns to her…
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A demonstration of bush fire fighting equipment will be given at Taree Estate on Friday morning…
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Paul W. Kearney, a leading authority on fire fighting and author of two books and some 250 articles on the subject, brings the worst…
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MACKSVILLE, Aug. 25.--A report tonight states that a vehicle was burnt out after it overturned in a grass fire seven miles north of Nambucca Heads, and that two people, both from…
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Remembering the terrific fires that ravaged various sections of North Coast Forestry areas in recent years, as well as the damage done to private property, now that another fire season is imminent…
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COFFS HARBOUR. Aug. 27: Firemen were called today to quell an outbreak which threatened a large…
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At United Nations Advance Headquarters in Munsan, Korea, General Mark W. Clark, (left) U.N. Commander-in-Chief, reads the truce documents prior to the final signing. They had been signed…
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"Along the North Coast there is a lot of burning-off going on in a not very well controlled way," stated Mr. H. E. Messer (chairman of the Bush Fires Committee), at a Bush…
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Fire fighting organisation on the North Coast would be totally inadequate in the event of a sudden emergency, an officer of the Board of Fire Commissioners told a meeting of Shiral…
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Yesterday, September 1, was officially the end of winter and the opening of spring…
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