Car Damaged by Fire
A large sedan car was extensively damaged by fire in High-street, Maitland, on Saturday afternoon. Two shop…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 32
Fire Board Moves For Deregistration
SYDNEY.—The Board of Fire Commissioners to-day decide to make an immediate application to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Threat at N. LAMBTON Sparks Shower On Houses
A bushfire menaced homes in Carrington-parade, New Lambton, last night. A high wind blew thousand of sparks across the roofs of homes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDITORIAL The "Too-Old-At-60" Idea Under Fire
IN RAISING THE QUESTION of the "out of date" practice of retiring public servants at 60, Professor Bland, M.H.R., brings to public attention an issue that…
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More than 30,000 volunteer firefighters are on the alert in N.S.W. as the threat of widespread bushfires grows. Meanwhile, police have…
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GRAFTON, Monday.—The first bushfire death this year has occurred at Dorrigo…
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SYDNEY: In a temperature of more than 100 degrees, 200 volunteers today are trying to hold back a huge bushfire menacing many houses near the small township of Menai. Burning on a front of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Warning; Fire Risk High To-day
The State Weather Bureau warned last night that the bushfire danger would be high to-day. Fires eased at many places yesterday with cooler weather, but bushfire…
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Homes at Kahibah were endangered by bushfire yesterday. Threequarters of a mile of railway sleepers were set alight at Kotara…
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Police will be asked by Lower Hunter Shire Council to investigate a fire which caused widespread damage to fencing and bushland on the East Maitland-Raymond Terrace road and…
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Three big banana plantations worth thousands of pounds were destroyed by fire at Coff's Harbour yesterday. Several men in the Coff's…
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Fierce bushfires today are menacing North Coast State forests, plantations and farms. Hundreds of volunteers—some have fallen…
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Fires were burning fiercely on properties near Wauchope last night. A fire at Orara, near Coff's…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police have begun investigating all bushfire outbreaks in the Coff's Harbour district…
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Two firemen suffered minor injuries at a fire in a switch-room at Lysaght's works, Port Waratah, last night. The room…
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A bushfire near No. 3 tunnel of Bellbird mine yesterday destroyed fencing, telephone and electric light poles and skip…
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SYDNEY: The chief officer of N.S.W. Fire Brigades (E. J. Griffiths) said in the industrial Commission today that he was the Only man on duty at Fire Headquarters during one stage…
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Toronto Fire Brigade put out a small fire in burning rubbish near Beath-street, Kilaben Bay, yesterday afternoon…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Fire destroyed a 14-room barracks at the Snowy River Authority's east camp, near Cooma,…
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A fire in the lounge-room of a flat in Brook-street, Newcastle, early yesterday morning destroyed a lounge chair…
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