Bushfires Severe In Victoria
MELBOURNE, Sunday. — At the week-end Victors had its severest outbreaks of gra[?] and scrub fires this summer[?]…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
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Six Bush and Grass Fires
Brigades put out six bush and grass fires in the Newcastle district yesterday. There was no damage…
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A check inspector said yesterday he was prepared to advise men not to work on fires on sealings unless they were granted penalty rates…
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Work on mine heatings was prejudicial to men's health, Mr. E. Hudson said yesterday. Mr. Hudson, a shiftman…
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The Weather Bureau issued Statewide bushfire warnings as high temperatures continued yesterday. In the Hunter, Hastings…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Jeff Bate, Liberal M.H.R. for Macarthur, said to-day that although the Chief Secretary…
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LISMORE. — A £20,000 fire gutted the two-storied chain store, Penney's, at 4 a.m. today…
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Electrical equipment, machinery and woodwork on No. 1 ore loading bridge at the B.H.P. were severely damaged…
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At least two men have been seriously burned, eight homes lost, thousands of acres of land destroyed and hundreds of cattle burned to death in huge bushfires sweeping…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—One of Melbourne's most beautiful buildings—the Wilson Hall at Melbourne…
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LISMORE, Friday.—Damage estimated at more than £20,000 was caused when fire this morning destroyed the top…
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Newcastle and district brigades put out 14 bush and grass fires yesterday. Damage was restricted to a…
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Taken from above Bar Beach yesterday, this picture shows the heat-bathed coastline to Merewether, behind which…
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Newcastle Fire Brigade had a busy day yesterday fighting many bush and grass fires in the district. District Officer…
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Bushfires near the St. Leonards power station, on the Sydney end of the Sydney-Newcastle interconnector,…
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Four people died in bushfires and 79 homes were destroyed yesterday in one of the State's worst days for bushfires. Many more homes are believed to have been destroyed…
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ATLIXCO (Mexico). Jan. 27. A.A.P.— Forty-one persons were burnt to death yesterday in a bus…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade had a hard fight today with two fires in grass and scrub, both of which got…
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WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Bushfires in North Island caused heavy damage at the week-end,…
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Fires flared up again yesterday in the Riverina and on the South Coast. The destruction of 10 homes at Wonboyn, 20 miles from Eden, brought the total loss since Friday to well…
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