Elderly Couple Fight Bush Fire Sydney
A bush fire, which reached a height of nearly forty feet, destroyed eighty acres of scrub and bracken in the South Creek Road area at Deewhy today…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Shire Decides Against Increased Rates Decisions of Bush Fire Captains Discussed
Tuesday's meeting of die Timbrebongie Shire Council dealt with recommendations made at a conference of captains of bush fire brigades and others held at Narromine on June 28 A recommendation that the Shire levy a special rate to cover the coat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Intimidation Against Prices Officer Home Set on Fire Adelaide
The Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. McCann) whose home was deliberately fired by an intruder on Wednesday night, said to-day that indirect…
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The vigorous clanging of the fire bells and the drone of the siren at 10 o'clock on Wednesday night apprised the residents of a fire, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Queensland Fire. BRISBANE
A fire which raged for three hours last night in Winton, Central Queensland, destroyed seven buildings and caused…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Fire in Queensland Town Widespread Damage BRISBANE
A fire which raged for three hours last night in Winton, Central Queensland, destroyed seven buildings and caused damage estimated at £30,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires in Queensland BRISBANE, Thursday
Hundreds of square miles of drought-stricken South Eastern Queensland are ablaze, from Bundaberg to the border. Last night bushfires, which were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfires. Drought-stricken S.E. Queensland Aflame. Brisbane
Hundreds of square miles of drought-stricken southeastern Queensland are aflame from Bund[?]berg to the border…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spicer's Creek Fire Threatens Homestead
A fire which broke out in the wood heap and spread to the outhouses, threatened Mr. and Mrs. Claude Mason's home on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Kitchen
A fire which broke out in the kitchen of the home of Mr. Rhuburn Williams, Hampton Avenue, at 10.30 a.m. today, was extinguished with buckets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Belar Creek Fire Brigade
The Belar Creek Fire Brigade held its annual meeting at Warkton Post Office on Friday last, August 16. Mr. Geoff Knight was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Wool Store Fire Will Not Dislocate Business
The fire at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Ltd. Prymont wool stores, announced over the wireless this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Fire Damage Estimated at £350,000. SYDNEY
Damage estimated at about £350,000 was caused by a fire which gutted the Ultimo wool stores of New Zealand Loan and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Fire In Sydney Ultimo Wool Stores Gutted Damage Estimated at £350,000 Flames Seen From Blue Mountains
The worst fire that Sydney has experienced for more than 11 years destroyed the No. 2 Wool Store of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. at Ultimo last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Telegrams £350,000 Damage in Sydney's Most Spectacular Fire for Eleven Years O'reilly Unavailable for Tests. Large Wool Stores Burnt. Sydney
Damage estimated at about £350,000 was caused by a fire which gutted the Ultimo wool stores of the New Zealand Loan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Baled Straw
After working for six hours on a fire which occurred on Sunday afternoon in a 25-ton stack of baled straw, the prep[?]rty of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEUREA Bush Fire Brigade. Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Neurea Bushfire Brigade was held at Neurea on the 21st instant, when the captain…
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A fire, on a travelling stock reserve on the Bogan Road, nine miles from Narromine, destroyed about a quarter of a mile of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Fires Sawdust Dump
Dubbo Volunteer Fire Brigade, under the command of Captain Lattimer was called out on Thursday morning to extinguish a fire which broke out in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Army Fire Service at Trieste
Recently a practice fire was swiftly extinguished by the newly arrived Medium Fire Float, of the 18lh (1st Class) Fire Brigade station in the Port of Trieste. The fire was started aboard one of the wrecks in the S. Sabba area, and within a matter of minutes was…
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