Bolton Point Bushfire
Early this afternoon Toronto Birgade had been fighting an extensive grass and scrub fire at Bolton…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
740 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 37
Mountains Bushfires Sixty Homes Threatened
SPRINGWOOD.—More than 60 homes a threatened today by bushfires sweeping toward North Springwood and Faulconbridge, on the Blue Mountains…
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The Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to two large scrub and grass fires yesterday. One was off…
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The fire brigade would not supervise burning-off to remove move a fire hazard, the Secretary (Mr. J. Richley) told…
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TOKYO, Dec. 17. A.A.P.—Reuter.—Fire early to-day destroyed 800 homes, shops, theatres, restaurants and…
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Many homes were threatened yesterday by a bushfire which swept on a five-mile front towards Springwood in the Blue Mountains…
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Several homes are believed burnt in a big fire north-west of Sydney last night. A high wind fanned the balze on a 10-mile front…
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SYDNEY: A police survey at dawn today revealed that last night's bushfires on the Lower Blue Mountains and Upper Hawkesbury…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire to-day destroyed the Austral Brick Works in Princes Highway, St. Peters…
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SYDNEY: Before approving the construction of new workshops for Newcastle Fire Brigade…
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A children's Christmas party at Croudace Park, was interrupted when the organisers, members of Eleebana Progress…
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Despite the unsettled weather with light showers during the day, Newcastle district fire brigades…
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An officer of the Government Welfare Department who has just returned from a 2000 miles tour…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A sudden change in the wend this afternoon increased the bushfire danger in the Blue Mountains. Firefighters, weary form…
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The water along the side of the United States battleship New Jersey is pushed back as the nine 16in. guns throw a…
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ASTORIA (Oregon), Dec. 20. A.A.P.—Fire early to-day converted the Danish motor-ship Erria into a flaming…
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Brigades made a good save last night when fuel oil caught alight in the rear of a…
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SYDNEY: The New South Wales Flood Victims' Relief Fond decided yesterday to wind up its…
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ASTORIA (Oregon), Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Eleven persons were reported missing after fire swept the Danish motorship Erria (8788 tons) which was anchored in the Columbia River early today…
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NEW YORK. Dec. 21. A.A.P.—Broderick: Crawford and 60 other members of a film company fled from the…
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