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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Police Fire At Indian Rioters

Tweed Daily · Monday 24 June 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday: Police opened fire to disperse the crowds in the third day of the…

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Fire Outbreak in Casino Sawmill

Northern Star · Monday 24 June 1946 · page 4

CASINO, Sunday. — Casino Fire Brigade received a call about 11 p.m. Friday to a fire which had broken out at Bennett Bros…

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Brigade Called to Grass Fire

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 6

Lismore Fire Brigade was called out about noon yesterday to extinguish a grass fire in a vacant allotment in Ewing Street. No damage…

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Police Fire On Persian Crowd

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday: A Teheran (Persia) message states that police fired 35 shots during a demonstration by 2000…

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Grass Fire At Coleman's Point

Northern Star · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 4

Answering an alarm a 2 pm. yesterday, Lismore Fire Brigade extinguished a small grass fire at Coleman's Point. Using small…

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U.S. No. 1 "Fire Trap"

Northern Star · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP). —Fires in the United States caused the deaths of over 10,000 persons and a financial loss of 500 million…

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Dense Smoke From Rubbish Tip Fire

Northern Star · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 4

When a huge volume of black smoke shot up into the sky, seemingly above Lismore Gas Works yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock,…

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Fire District

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 2

Advice has been received by Tweed Shire Council that the Greenhills area has been gazetted for inclusion in the…

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Coolangatta Fire Board

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 2

Messrs S. W. Winders and J. L. Sordon have been appointed, as Government of the new-constituted Coolangatta…

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Wants Proper Control of Grass Fires

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 July 1946 · page 7

Questions regarding the conditions under which persons were permitted to burn off grass lands were asked at Lismore Municipal…

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Brigade Called Out to Grass Fires

Northern Star · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 5

On two successive nights Lismore Fire Brigade were called to attend to grass fires. On Thursday night, a fire broke out in Gerard's Hill…

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Grass Fire at Casino

Northern Star · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 4

CASINO, Sunday.—Casino Fire Brigade turned out to a large grass fire in Convent Lane at 1 p.m. yesterday. For a time a two-storeyed…

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New Fire Engine at Coraki Station

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 4

CORAKI, Monday.— A new fire engine has been stationed at Coraki. It is the fifth engine the brigade has had since its formation about…

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Fire in Mine

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A fire broke out in the Old Cessnock No. 2 mine again this morning. The surfaces subsided and formed a…

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Set. Fire to Woman's Clothing

Northern Star · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—A King's Cross landlady who is alleged to have set fire to a woman tenants clothing appeared in the dock at Central Court…

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C'gatta Fire Brigade Board

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 2

At the first statutory meeting of the newly constituted Coolangatta Fire Brigade Board, held at Coolangattn Council…

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Dropped Baby Over Balcony From Fire

Northern Star · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. — A mother dropped her baby 20 feet to the ground from a balcony, then [?]umped herself escaping death by…

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£30,000 Blaze in Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—A large building was gutted, three houses set alight, and a complete block threatened by a fire at Parramatta Road, Petersham…

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Big Blaze in Dock Area I in Nova Scotia

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 1

PICTOU, Sunday: Canadian Press Nova Scotia correspondent says: The worst fire in history of the town swept…

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Spectacular Fire In Sydney

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: One of Sydney's most spectacular fires today destroyed Westgate Rollerdrome…

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