Over 100 Fight Fires at Wauchope
More than 100 men fought fires last night is State forests and on private properties near Wauchope. Fires at Coff's Harbour have destroyed more than…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 32
Five Men Dash Through Bushfire: Truck Burnt
Five men trapped in a bushfire at Reachwood, near Wauchope, on the North Coast, ran through flames to safety early today. They were unhurt but the truck they left behind was destroyed. Elsewhere on the…
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A sawmill, stack of sawn timber and lorry, owned by George Slater, of Morral Creek, 19 miles from…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 23. A.A.P.—Jason Jackson, a 65-year-old rancher was in gaol in Blythe (California)…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Rain over North Coast bushfire areas to-day had saved the situation, Forestry Commission…
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Sparks from a burning stump are believed to have started a fire which destroyed a house occupied by Oscar…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A fireman rescued a crippled woman from a blazing house in Paul-street, Cheltenham,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Forestry Commission employees ate clearing debris in the North Coast bushfire areas…
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KYOGLE.—Forestry officers believe that two fires which have destroyed 800 acres of State forest in the…
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SYDNEY: Seven men escaped being burnt to death by only 30 seconds when a grease and oil factory at Regent's Park became a raging inferno today…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Seven men narrowly escaped from a fire which gutted an oil and grease plant in Clapham-road,…
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Cook's Hill Fire g used a chemical extinguish er on a blaze which brok out in the nearby P.D.[?]…
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Maitland Fire Brigade was called yesterday to put out a small grass fire on Maitland Park, near the bowling green…
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A fire in a small area of scrub and undergrowth at Carey Bay, Toronto, yesterday was put out by Toronto…
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Charlestown brigade used a break last night to stop a raging bush fire from damaging property at Mount Hutton. Firemen tried…
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Fires burnt through about 450 acres of bush in Newcastle district at the week-end. On Saturday Charlestown…
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Engines from Cook's Hill and Tighe's Hill brigades attended n blaze in a toolshed in Hewison St., Tighe's…
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PUSAN, Nov. 29. A.A.P.-Reuter.—At least four fires broke out in Pusan last night, adding to the damage caused…
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PUSAN, Mon. (A.A.P.): A South Korean woman has been blamed for the fire which burned out the heart of Pusan last week. Police who arrested her…
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PUSAN, Nov. 30. A.A.P.—A South Korean woman was arrested yesterday by police who said a fire in her home…
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