Family Has Fire Fighting Record
The Mowett family has had the distinction of having served in the N.S.W. voluntary fire brigade for…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Fire Death Deliberate, Police Say
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police believe that a woman who was fatally burnt in a Bondi flat early to-day deliberately set herself on…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 7. A.A.P.—A spectacular fire, whipped by an ocean wind, destroyed 10 stores on the Atlantic City promenade…
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An emergency call was made late last night for men to burn firebreaks in the Stanhope and Ellerslie areas. A four-day-old fire last night crossed mountain and burnt toward farmlands…
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SYDNEY: Councils in the Newcastle area have been requested to consider recalling all fire permits granted under Section 10 of the Bushfires Act unless the permitted area is…
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Grass and scrub fires blazed throughout the district as the temperature rose to the 90's today and a squally northwesterly reached 45 miles an hour. Early this afternoon every brigade in the district except Tighe's Hill was fighting fires…
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Fire brigades had a quiet day yesterday compared with other days of this week. They were called only four…
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A hint that fire floats might be installed in Newcastle Harbour to protect shipping and wharf facilities was given yesterday by…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Brigades worked for two hours to-day to control a fire which badly damaged the refrigeration hold of the…
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SYDNEY: Bushfires today are raging with new fury in north-west N.S.W., leaving behind blackened wastes of desolation in some of the State's most valuable grazing lands…
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Disastrous fires yesterday swept New South Wales and Queensland, causing a heavy loss. A firefighter was burnt to death and three others suffered burns…
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Bushfires ringed Newcastle and district yesterday. Above: Fire races through scrub at Adamstown. Below: Children from houses watch firefighters at work…
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A man was burnt to death in Queensland. Three homes were destroyed near Sydney. Many wre endangered near Newcastle. A £3000 fire engine was abandoned to flames near…
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The public is coming forward open-handedly to assist an Islington family whose home and…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—A big bushfire late to-night threatened to distroy Gindie, population 150, about 14…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Bushfires in most parts of the State were more or less under control, Forestry Commission officers said…
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A rabbiter who set fire to ferns and grass at Deadman's Creek, near Seaham, on Saturday, "to smoke ferrets from burrows," was…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Evatt) to-night reissued the proclamation prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open,…
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The dry undergrowth burned rapidly and trees became flaming torches as a bushfire swept through a large area of grass and scrub at Redhead yesterday. Charlestown used four hydrants in a battle with the flames, which lasted several hours. This has been a typical scene in the Newcastle district over the past week…
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Members of the Building Workers' Industrial Union have been asked to give their labor voluntarily…
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