£700,000 Fire at Air Base
TRENTON (Ontario), Thurs.: Damage estimated at £700,000 was caused yesterday when fire destroyed the main repair…
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Protect Your Home Against Bushfires
âKeep doors and windows closed when bushfires are near your house,â said a C.S.I.R.O. spokesman today. This simple…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Two men died in Swan Hill Hospital today from burns suffered in a [?]ire believed to have been deliberately started by one of the men last night…
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A conference of representatives of bush fire brigades convened by the Culcairn Shire Council was held in the council chambers on Friday night. Shire President (Cr…
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An electric storm that passed through the Rutherglen district on Saturday had a varying effect…
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At the peak of the storm which lashed Albury and border district on Saturday afternoon five bushfires broke out around…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Fire at Cemetery
A small area of grass was destroyed at Albury cemetery late yesterday morning. Albury Fire Brigade extinguished the flames…
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An electric storm that passed through the Rutherglen district on Saturday had a varying effect…
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SYDNEY, Mon: Lightning during severe electrical storms on the Clarence today started fires on two cane farms…
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A Coolamon grazier escaped injury late on Thursday afternoon when his car burst into flames in the main street of Coolamon…
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An outbreak of fire at Barratta station about noon yesterday destroyed approximately 400 acres in heavily grassed country before…
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NEW YORK, Tues.: Two disastrous fires, in one of which eight people lost their lives, occurred in the United States…
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Albury City Council curator (Mr Smith) reported to Albury City Council last evening that fires around the city had caused…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Early this morning firemen were desperately fighting to extinguish a fiercely burning petrol tanker…
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Fire destroyed 10 acres of grass on the Howlong rd. early yesterday afternoon. Local residents operating a furphy and Albury…
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Following a request for investigation as to whether the grass fire in the Burrumbuttock-Walla area on December 28, had been caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helped fight Yarrawonga bush fire
A bush fire broke out on the property of Mr. W. J. Browning, about three miles from Yarrawonga, on Tuesday. The alarm was raised, and within minutes, hundreds of fire-fighters were at the scene. Ten acres of stubble and three acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Brigade Association Formed at Culcairn
At a conference of district representatives of Bush Fire Brigades, held at Culcairn on Friday night, it was resolved to form a Culcairn Bush Fire Association, and to held meetings in the first week in October each year…
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Owing to an obnormal growth of pasture and the amount of the poorer types of native grasses, the bush fire danger at the moment is extremely high, states Mr. G. C. Bartlett, senior agronomist, in his monthly crop report…
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Overcome by smoke and heat while assisting to quell a grass fire which broke out on Mr P. Dohertyâs property, Finley road…
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