Bushfire Destruction
SCARS left by the weekend inferno at Mt. Wilson are charred tree stumps and burned vegetation…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
674 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 34
Shop-Keeper Fires At "Grab" Thief
MELBOURNE, Monday.—A Burnley jeweller fired three shots to-day at a man alleged to have grabbed a diamond…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A line between Queanbeyan and Reyalla, damaged by fires, had been reopened to run the…
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Maitland firemen fought for 2½ hours yesterday to put out a fire which started at Maitland Council rubbish…
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TUNIS, Feb. 4. A.A.P.—Police opened fire to-day on a crowd forming on the streets and killed one person in a…
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PUSAN (Korea), Feb. 4. A.A.P.—Five hundred houses were destroyed and 100 damaged by a wind-fanned fire…
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NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P).—A young family of five today died in their flaming third-floor flat…
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I REPLY to misleading statements reported to have been made by Ald. Quinlan to Newcastle City Council…
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OMAHA (Nebraska). Feb. 4 A.A.P.—Five persons died and 14 were injured last night in a fire that swept rapidly…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Creation of an organisation to help fire and flood victims, similar to the wartime War Damage…
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SYDNEY: Driven up Blue Mountain gorges by a north-west wind, huge bushfires are threatening Mount Victoria and the apple growing district of Shipley. Elsewhere in the State the bushfire danger is described by…
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WAGGA: The whole 200 population of the township of Branya (near Albury) fled in terror this morning as a huge bushfire threatened to wipe out the settlement. Men, women and…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The fire at Mount Stromlo Observatory to-day disrupted the time service throughout Australia…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A woman was burnt to death and 40 homes were destroyed in bushfires in Victoria to-day. Six people were admitted…
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Serious bushfires again swept New South Wales and Victoria yesterday. A woman was burnt to death and six people were seriously burnt in the worst fires in Victoria for a…
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Maitland City Council last night opened a subscription list for victims of bushfires. It donated £25…
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CANBERRA: A Royal Commission on bushfires is sought by Mr. Bate, Liberal M.H.R., and secretary of the Joint Government Food Production Committee…
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BRISBANE.—A fire caused £20,000 damage to buildings and stock owned by Australian Plastic…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Scientists to-day discovered that a large stellar spectroscope, valued at £7000, and…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Four people died to-day from bushfire burns. This brought the Victorian bushfire deathroll to 10…
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