Woman Lost Life In Bushfire
PERTH, Sunday.—Apparently collapsing after having been overcome by smoke and fumes when fighting a bushfire near her residence at…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 30
Merewether Grass Fire
Cook's Hill and Merewether brigades attended a grass fire off Railway-street, Merewether, last night. It was put out before doing any…
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SYDNEY: Waking to find her weatherboard house aflame early today, a 57-year-old woman rescued two elderly women and her pet dogs and cats before seeking safety. Mrs. Annie Fagarty, Union Street,…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—After drying winds and rising temperatures, 40 grass and scrub fires broke but over a wide area in Victoria…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mrs. Annie Fogarty, 57, saved two elderly women and her pet dogs and cats, from a blazing weatherboard house in…
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The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) informed Greater Newcastle Council last night that he would receive a deputation to…
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Greater Newcastle Council last night received a letter from the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) saying that he would receive a…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Fiver R.A.A.F. planes will "bomb" a bushfire about a mile from Anglesley on Thursday afternoon…
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BACK FOR VISIT. Australian war bride, Mrs. Roma Emmert, with her daughter, Mary Lou, 3, on arrival in Sydney by A.N.A. Skymaster from Vancouver. Mrs. Emmert is on her way to Brisbane to…
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Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused when fire broke out in the new cargo and passenger liner Corinthic while being fitted out in the Cammell Laird yards. Birkenhead. The Corinthic (15,000 tons) was launched in May, 1946, and was…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—An electric storm which broke over Euroa to-day started seven grass fires…
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Four brigades attended three small fires last night. Wallsend and Waratah brigades went to burning grass at Birmingham Gardens. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jap Firemen Did Not Put Out Fire "Herald" Service
TOKYO, Jan. 16.—Things did not go too well when Tokyo's firefighters staged their first postwar fire department day which was intended…
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LONDON: Fifteen hundred lives are lost and damage amounting to £10 million is caused by fires in Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£20,000 Fire in Pottery Works
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which wined oat a section of the Sunshine porcelain and…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Victoria's sudden burst of heat to-day caused several bush fires, although none was serious. The Weather Bureau…
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The Mayor (Aid. H. D. Quinlan), Ald. Johnson and Lloyd and the Secretary of the Newcastle Trades and Labor Council (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Jumped River to Victorian Town
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The most serious bushfire this season jumped a river and destroyed four houses to-day before it was brought under control at Anglesea, about 20 miles along the coast…
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SYDNEY.—The heat wave has increased bushfire risk over a large part of the State. The Weather Bureau warns that risk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday-makers Slept on Beach When Bushfires Menaced Their Homes
MELBOURNE: Driven from tents and homes by bushfires, 1000 holiday-makers at Anglesea slept last night on the ocean beach. Motor cars, caravans and other vehicles…
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