Guest House Fire
GUNNEDAH: Fire destroyed a Gunnedah guest-house, a two-Storeyed timber-framed building,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
740 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 37
Misfire At Fire Display
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire lit in French's Forest this morning as a demonstration to 150 members of fire brigades…
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Gifts to the Lord Mayor's fire appeal for the Sterling family of Islington now total £103 2s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Brigade Aid On Fire Breaks
Fire brigades in Newcastle at present are unable to help people burn fire breaks to protect their property. This was revealed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bushfire Battles Still On
SYDNEY: Dozens of office and factory workers stayed home today at Terrey Hills,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ball of Fire
LONDON: A ball of fire flashed across the sky at Be [?] ill during a thunderstorm…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The State Government had asked the Federal Government to contribute £10,000 as a begining for busfire relief, the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£21,000 Fire At Islington
A fire caused damage estimated at £21,000 to the premises of the Hunter Upholstering factory in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →£21,000 Fire Loss At Islington
Damage estimated at £21,000 was caused when fire gutted the Hunter Up holstering Factory, Maitland-road Islington last night…
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Miners 1000 feet underground at Lithgow were affected by smoke fumes and children and women fled from homes menaced by bushfires today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bulahdelah Fires Fires 99 P.C. "Man Made"
A Forestry Commission officer at Bulahdelah said today that he believed that 99 per cent, of the fires which have ravaged the seven State forests in that area…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire At Lambton
A quantity of paint and a bicycle were damaged when a fire broke out in a cottage in Durham-rd.,…
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Graziers are checking stock losses after bushfires in the North-West. Mr. R. Hunt examines a dead sheep on his father's property at Burren Junction. Five hundred sheep, each valued at between £7 and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →14 Children Die In Theatre Fire
QUITO (Ecuador), Nov. 20. A.A.P.A fire in a motion picture theatre at Cuenca on Sunday killed 14 children…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire 7 Miles Wide Theartens Town
Flames are threatening Coonabarabram on a seven-mile front and police, council workers and volunteer firefighters are patrolling a firebreak six miles from the township. Coonabarabran Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Water Wall Fight Fires
Fire-fighters, using 87 engines, throw a wall of water up in Providence, Rhode Island, America, when a Statewide civilian defence drill was held…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Breather" Tells Of Ship's Fires
When motor vessel Kabbarli takes up running on the Fremantle-Darwin service for the W.A. State…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Glen Davis Saved From Fire
A wind change last night saved the oil town of Glen Davis from bushfires. The fires had ringed the township…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Hundreds of diners panicked when a fire broke out in the Hotel Carlton,…
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Two N.S.W. towns in the path of huge bushfires are fearful that stronger winds will send the flames roaring forward. The towns are Coonabarabran and Glen Davis…
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