Light Rain Lessens Fire Danger
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Light rain over most of New South Wales to-day considerably eased the bushfire danger…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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U.S. Visa Policy Under Fire
NEW YORK, Dec 9. A.A.P.—High State Department officials believed that United States foreign policy and…
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SYDNEY: Every available volunteer firefighter today is battling a bushfire raging near fire-stricken Warrimoo and Blaxland on the Blue Mountains…
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Bushfires broke out in a number of places in the Newcastle and Coalfields areas yesterday. At Highfields three brigades fought…
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A grass fire burning on a mile front yesterday threatened several homes at Farley. Maitland firemen and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There were indications of a concerted agreement between a detective and a woman witness to deceive a murder trial jury in 1947, Mr. Shand, K.C.,…
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Coal Point Progress Association asked the Board of Fire Commissioners to place fire-fighting equipment in Skye…
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The Fire Brigades Act should be amended to enable the brigades to burn off, after notice had been served on the occupant of land, where a fire hazard existed. Ald. H. T. Skilton said at Maitland Council last night…
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SYDNEY: A dangerous southerly wind is carrying flames from the Grose Valley towards Faulconbridge, on the Blue Mountanis, today. All firefighters in the area have been alerted. It is feared that a fresh-…
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Maitland City Council decided last night to confer with officers of the Maitland Fire Brigade on action to…
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Only two grass fires were reported in Newcastle district yesterday. One was at Belmont, the other near the…
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12. A.A.P.—Seventeen people, including 13 children, died in fires in the United States and…
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SYDNEY: Caledonian Collieries and Newcastle Fire District officers will cooperate in training fire…
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A fire which destroyed a Maitland house yesterday left part of a block of ice in an ice-chest unmelted…
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SYDNEY: Firemen today began burning a huge firebreak to protect 50 houses in West…
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LISMORE, Friday.—The Coroner (Mr. H. L. Pelham) to-day found that a fire which caused a stock loss of £8000…
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Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided to cooperate with the Police Department in a move for more Bushfire…
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Brigades attended 11 bush and grass fires in Newcastle district, yesterday. There was no property damage…
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The Senior Fire Officer at the Newcastle Fire Brigade Headquarters has been…
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SYDNEY: Firemen had a grim three-hour battle to stop flames burning out a factory block in Mountain-st., Ultimo, early today. The fire began at 5 a.m…
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