Neurea Bush Fire Brigade. Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Neurea Bush Fire Brigade was held on Thursday, September 29. Some concern was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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£100,000 R.A.A.F. Stores Fire Sydney
Fire swept the R.A.A.F. stores at Regent Park this morning causing damage estimated at £100,000. The records branch…
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The risk of bush fires this year will be great. Evidence of this was shown when a large gathering of members…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Patients Carried Out As Fire Sweeps Hospital Sydney
Aged bed-ridden men moaned and helpless elderly women screamed as nurses carried them to safety when a fire swept…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Help for Bush Fire Brigade
Following a request from the Showground Bush Fire Brigade to last Thursday night's Council meeting, two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Started in Bird Nest
A fire which started in a bird's nest in the gable of a house on the corner of Ronald and Darling streets shortly after 8…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Control Council Threatens Action If Breakes Not Ploughed
A statement that action would be taken against wheatgrowers who do not make firebreaks around their crops was approved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Conduct of Railway Yards Under Fire Move By Chamber Of Commerce For Extra Trucks
Dubbo railway yards were the most disgracefully run yards in the West, Mr. A. MacDougall said at last night's monthly meeting of Dubbo Chamber of Commerce…
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The annual meeting of the Windora-Comobella Bush Fire Brigade was held at the Comobella Hall last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cumnock Bush Fire Brigade. Mr. Ivan Eggleston Captain
The adjourned meeting of the Cumnock Bush Fire Brigade was held immediately after the Park meeting on 11th inst. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fire Brigade Warrumbungle Hold Annual Meeting
Present at the annual meeting of the Warrumbungle Bush Fire Brigade, held on Sunday last, were: Messrs, J. P. Bourke, V…
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A small grass lire on a vacant block next to Boxall's store, Macquarie Street, Dubbo, at about 10.00 this morning was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Prevention Week Starts
This year's Fire Prevention Week and the Bush Fires Precention campaign will open in New South Wales next Monday…
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The Dubbo Fire Brigade, attending a fire at Myall Street yesterday afternoon, arrived at another fire in Macleay…
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The Chief Secretary, (Mr.C. H. Matthews, M.L.A.), said that the Bush Fires Act had now been passed by Parliament and would…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Glass Suit for Fire-walkers
The United States Air Force has successfully tested a new glass fibre suit that enables fire-fighters to walk through flames…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Serious Loss of Building Material by Fire
Prompt action by the Wellington Fire Brigade prevented what could have developed into a very serious blaze at…
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A fire broke out in the Southern rooms at rear of the Old Tatt's Building, Bourke, at about 3 a.m. on Sunday…
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A small grass fire near the Dubbo saleyards about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon was quickly extinguished by beaters used by…
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Any person engaged in fighting a bush fire or bona-fide travelling to or returning from a fire as a lighter is fully covered by insurance in the same…
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