Qld. South Coast Fire District
A new Fire Brigades District will be created when the South Coast municipality comes into being in May and will…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
232 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 12
Fire Destroys Shed, Contents
A wood and Iron shed, divided into two rooms, and used as a residence at the rear of a cottage in Gray Street, North Lismore, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cease Fire Ordered in Kashmir
NEW DELHI, Sunday (AAP).— It was officially announced that the cease-fire had been ordered in Kashmir—the centre of dispute for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Fire Delays Express
BRISBANE, Monday: A burning bridge at Kegaru, 30 miles south of Brisbane, held up the second division of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Early Morning Grass Fire
CASINO, Monday.—Casino Fire Brigade answered its first call of the year when it attended a small grass fire on a vacant allotment at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Dies in Farmhouse Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Herbert William Lange, 7, of Mildil, near West Wyalong, was burnt to death in a fire which destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Indonesians State Cease Fire Conditions
CANBERRA, Wednesday. — Five conditions on which the Indonesian Republican Government was prepared to order a cease-fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Only One False Call in Year's Fire Alarms
Only one false alarm was received by the Lismore Fire Brigade during 1948. It was a "needless" alarm turned in by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfires In Nerang Shire
The continued dry weather throughout Nerang Shire is causing anxiety among farners. The high country has again…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jews [?] Cease-Fire In Palestine
LONDON, Thursday (AAP). — Reuter's Tel[?] Aviv correspondent says the Israeli Cabinet is understood to have accepted in principle the United Nations cease-fire order…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Cracker Has Court Sequel
A young man recently appeared in the Mullumbimby Court of Petty Sessions as a sequel to an escapade at a dance at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Control Yuan Sues for Cease-fire
NANKING, Tuesday (AAP-Reuter). —The Control Yuan, the Kuomintang Government's highest supervisory body, to-day unanimously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£250,000 Damage in Cowra Blaze
COWEA, Wednesday. — Damage estimated at a quarter of a million pounds was caused when a fire gutted one of the biggest country…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£130,000 Fire at Cowra
SYDNEY, Wednesday:--A fire at Cowra, in south-west New South Wales completely destroyed the large departmental store of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →12 Children Die in Fire
GENEVA, Wednesday (AAP). — Twelve Swiss children and a 20-year-old nurse were burned to death today in a fire which, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →12 Children, Two Women, Die in Fire
LONDON, Wednesday:--Twelve children, a 20-year-old nurse and an English girl, 25, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thrown Into Dam to Escape Fire
MELBOURNE. Thursday.—Fearing for their safety, a farmer frantically seized his wife and two children and threw them into a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lit Fire Without Permit; Man Fined
"My informer said he would fix me, and he has," said Henry Christopher Evans, 66, Palm Vale farmer, in the Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soviet Consulate Fire: Child Dead
LONDON, Friday (AAP). —Three-year-old Alla Abranova, daughter of a Soviet Consulate official, died in hospital after being rescued from a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paintings Lost in Auckland Blaze
AUCKLAND, Sunday: John Weeks, artist and art-school teacher, lost 200 original paintings, watercolors, and sketches…
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