Hot Westerly Brings Bushfire Threat
SYDNEY: With temperatures rising and hot westerlies freshening, N.S.W. faces extreme bushfire dangers today. Thousands of firefighters have been alerted…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
674 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 34
Big Blaze At East Branxton
Nearly 100 men, women and children fought a grass fire which threatened East Branxton yesterday…
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Bedding, furniture, curtains and household goods were needed urgently for families who had been burnt out of six…
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A bushfire at Thornton yesterday burnt out 600 acres and menaced powder magazines at two brickworks. Pupils at Thornton…
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An appeal was opened at a public meeting last night at Wallsend to aid the Turner family who…
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HOBART, Thursday. — A fire which swept through the base used by the French scientific expedition in Adele Land…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Three people died in bushfires in Victoria to-day. Joe Chambers, about 45,…
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A section of the bushfire at Thornton, Eighty cows are believed to be in the bushland behind he fire…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Nine homes are believed to have been destroyed in bushfires in New South Wales to-day. A gigantic blaze spread from Huskisson, on the…
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A change of wind today eased fire danger in most parts of N.S.W., but there were several renewed outbreaks that threatened homes. Fires again caused havoc across the Victorian border. Five…
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Newcastle Fire Brigades were kept busy attending calls to suburban grass fires yesterday, but none proved serious…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Four State forests, two homes and seven banana plantations were burnt in New South Wales to-day. A furniture store, a launch, a truck and a car were…
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About 15 women and several children took part in a tad-long fight against a bush and grass fire at Bishop's…
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Seen against a grey smokefilled sky, rigid, burnt, black trees, victims of a bushfire, make a grim of a bushfire,…
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Police, forestry officers and civilians from Dungog yesterday afternoon fought an extensive grass fire which started…
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Brigades attended six bush and grass fires in Newcastle district yesterday and about 13 on Saturday. Many acres of…
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The J. Turner Fire Appeal Committee had £175 on Saturday night, the Treasurer (Mr. T. Bishop) said. A…
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PORT STANLEY (Falkland Islands), Feb. 3. A.A.P.—An Argentine shore party fired shots over the heads of a British group landing from the survey ship,…
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Damage estimated at £3000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the load on a lorry yesterday…
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Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., will protest to the Board of Fire Commissioners this week against its decision to close a…
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