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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

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Bushfire Flash From Captain Bruce Browning

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 12

Do yon know what you would do if you had a fire at the homestead? It's much safer to prepare now…

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Children Probably Started Fire

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 2

Children are thought to have started a fire which burnt hundreds of old tyres in the Glen Innes municipal dump off Hunter Street late yesterday afternoon. The fire sent a dense…

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Bushfire Flash From Captain Bruce Browning

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 6

Not many fires are started by tractors or engines but there have been cases, even locally. An engine that…

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Volunteer Fire Brigade Saved Bingara Shopping Centre

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 4

BINGARA, Wednesday: Prompt action by the newly- formed Bingara Volunteer Fire Brigade lost lost night saved possibly a large-scale destruction of Bingara shopping centre…

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State Forests Suffer From Private Fires

Guyra Argus · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 7
Also in The Uralla Times

The Commissioner for Forests, Mr. E. L. S. Hudson, said today that most fires which caused damage to State…

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Big Blaze At Bingara Averted By Volunteers

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 8

Swift action by the newly formed Bingara Volunteer Fire Brigade saved a large-scale fire in Bingara shopping centre…

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Fire Threatens Bingara Shops

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 2

BINGABA: Prompt action by the newly-formed Angara Volunteer Fire Brigade late on Tuesday…

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Pin -Pointing Bush Fire Danger Areas From Sydney!

The Inverell Times · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 4

The Ashford Shire Clerk, Mr. A. N. Heywood, on Friday told councillors that Council had powers which in effect enabled it to proclaim a bushfire danger area in the Shire…

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Blaze at Guyra

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 6

About 200 people watched a fire destroy a weatherboard out-house at the rear of a nome in Bradley Street, Guyra,…

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Car Fire Tragedy : Baby Boy Dead Brother 'Fair'

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 1

One child is dead and another is in the Glen Innes District Hospital suffering from severe burns as a result of a fire that destroyed a motor car at Wallingrove this morning…

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Fire Engine's Pump Tested

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 2

Pumping apparatus on the Glen Innes Fire Brigade's new engine was given a try-out at the…

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60 Wreaths at Funeral of Tiny Fire Victims

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 1

Relatives and friends sent nearly 60 wreaths for this funeral yesterday afternoon of two infant boys who died in tragic circumstances in the Glen Innes District Hospital on Monday. Friends and symoath[?]sers…

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Burial of Baby Brothers, Victims of Car Fire

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 1

GLEN INNES.-- The two baby brothers who died in Glen Innes Hospital on Monday from burns received…

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Fire Rescue Hero Tells His Story Bedside Interview

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 2

"I don't consider there was anything to it. The car was on fire, the children were in it, and we just had to get them out." In these matter of fact terms Brian Russell O'Donohue, of Southgate…

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A Big Fire in a Small House

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 1

Firs destroyed a small outhouse and damaged a section of fence at the rear of Helyar's Bakery, in Bradley Royal Visit broadcasters, I. to r.:—TAL DUCKMANTON, MRS. IDA ELIZABETH JENKINS and BILL NEWNHAM will be among the commentators in the A.B.C.'s Commonwealth touring unit for the Royal Visit. Duckmanton, who was heard in the Coronation broadcasts from London, will be the A.B.C.'s representative on the Gothic when she sails from…

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Two Infants Die When Car Catches Fire

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 8

John McLeod (2 years and 9 months), and Bruce McLeod (18 months), of Wagga received fatal injuries at…

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Scope of the Bush Fire Unit at Tingha

The Inverell Times · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 6

Further advice has been received from the Bush Fires Committee regarding the use of the…

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Young Couple Lose All in Fire Destructive Blaze At Kentucky

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 8

A young married couple lost all their furniture and possessions in a blaze which…

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Four Mungindi Hotel Fires

The Inverell Times · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 1

MUNGINDI. -- A fire which began in the Commercial Hotel. Mungindi, early on Saturday morning…

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