Butcher Shop Fire
Lismore fire brigade was called about 8 o'clock last night to extinguish a fire in an electric motor in a butcher's shop in Ballina St…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
404 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 21
Vic. Bush Fire Out of Control
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Victoria is facing its worst fire danger for 10 years. Rural fire brigades and hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£500,000 Damage in Geelong Goods Shed Fire
MELBOURNE, Monday.—A goods shed at Geelong railway station was almost completely destroyed tonight in one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.a. Premier Trapped by Bushfire
ADELAIDE, Monday.—The Premier, Mr. Playford, with 14 other people was trapped by bushfires at Cherryville this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vic. Bushfires Worst In History
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Bushfires raging in nearly every part of Victoria threatened to rival those of 1939, the worst in the State's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plunged to Death When Fires Raged
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A woman plunged to her death from the eight-storey Savings Bank of South Australia building today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glasgow's Worst Fire in 25 Years
GLASGOW, Sunday (AAP).—Every piece of fire fighting equipment in Glasgow ploughed through the snowbound streets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Threatens Hospital: Patients Moved
SYDNEY, Monday.—Ten patients were evacuated from Peak Hill Hospital today when a grassfire raging on a four miles front swept within…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peanut Silos Destroyed £100,000 Damage in Queensland Fire
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A huge fire still blazing late tonight has caused damage estimated at more than £100,000 to Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10,000 Damage In Nyngan Fire
NYNGAN, Friday.—Fire gutted two P.M.G. storerooms adjoining the Nyngan post office early today, causing £10,000 worth of damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire Smoke Blots Out Sun
BROKEN HILL, Friday.—Broken Hill flying doctor service today reported that a pall of bushfire smoke has covered the north-west…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Started Fire to Avoid Call-up
LANSING (Michigan), Monday (AAP).—Nineteen-year-old Richard Shay confessed setting fire which caused four million dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Hazard Increases in Queensland
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—As temperatures in south-west Queenland continue to rise steadily up to the century mark and northerly winds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further Q'land Bush Fires Feared
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Although most outbreaks in the fire-razed zones of south-western Queensland were under control tonight, police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Fodder Loss in Q. Bushfires
BRISBANE, Sunday.—Bush fires in South West Queensland have hit hard at more than 100 separate holdings. Individual losses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stock Destroyed in C.w. Queensland Bush Fires
BRISBANE, Monday.—A grass fire, which began at Barcaldine Downs Station, 23 miles from Barcaldine, yesterday, has burnt out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Hazard Wiped Out By Vic. Rains
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The fierce storm which raged throughout Victoria during the weekend, leaving a trail of wreckage and destruction,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£15,000 Sheep Loss in Q'land Bush Fires
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Sheep worth £15,000 have been burnt to death in a fire which has swept through five sheep stations in the Barcaldine district, in Central Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Threat Averted At Woodenbong: Arson Suspected
Prompt action by neighbours thwarted what are believed to be attempts to burn down Dumbigan's general store in Unumgar Street, Woodenbong, on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prompt Action Averts Woodenbong Fire Threat Arson Suspected
Prompt action by neighbours thwarted what are believed to have been attempts to burn down Dumbigan's general store in Unumgar Street, Woodenbong, on Tuesday night…
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