Fires Ravage Big Areas Volunteers Still Fighting
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fires which have been raging through National Park since yesterday afternoon have destroyed thousands of acres…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Factory Fire In Sydney
SYDNEY: Several thousand pounds worth of damage was done when a fire broke out in the City Manufacturing…
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Cook's Hill Fire Brigade yesterday received a call to a property off Kemp-street, Hamilton, where a private motor garage was on fire…
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To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the foundation of the Christian Endeavor movement, members of Newcastle District C.E. Union will…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—If breaches of the law were responsible for the fire outbreaks in National Park every effort would be made to trace…
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Belmont Fire Brigade yesterday answered a call to a scrub fire off George-street, Belmont. It was extinguished by the use of one…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Fire caused thousands of pounds' worth of damage and the loss of such short lines as pepper and curry powder this,…
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Grass fires were extinguished in Wallsend, Toronto, Boolaroo, New Lambton, Tighe's Hill and Charlestown yesterday by Newcastle and…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—For four hours a frightened party of two women, three children, and a month-old baby, lay in a potato paddock…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused by a fire which gutted a storeroom at the premises of the International…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Big fires are burning in Bundeena, National Park, an area of some hundreds of square miles. Late. to-night the fire at…
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CLEVELAND (U.S.), Feb. 3. A.A.P.—Twelve people were killed and seven injured in a fire which swept a residence for aged men and…
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Dry conditions and bushfires are causing concern to farmers and residents of the Bulahdelah-Gloucester district. Farmers say at least six…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Professional fern growers have been blamed for starting fires that burned out hundreds of acres of bushland in…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Clement McDonough smashed a window to escape from his bedroom after his bedding had caught on fire…
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Fire engines from cook's Hill and Hamilton yesterday afternoon prevented a fire destroying the Bruce street property of Frede. Ash Ltd…
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The bushfire, which threatened many dwellings in the bushlands at Medowie on Sunday, sprang up again yesterday morning, but the wind…
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SYDNEY: A semi-circle of flame, sweeping through the bush near Cowan Creek, threatened the little township of…
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Fire brigades within the Newcastle district answered three calls yesterday to bush and grass fires. The Wallsend station received one false…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday.—Fire completely destroyed Boggabri's powerhouse and generating plant. Damage was estimated at £10,000…
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