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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires
37 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
The Bush Fire Danger Period will come into effect in the City of Queanbeyan and the Shire of Yarrowlumla next Sunday, coinciding with the introduction of the statutory bush fire danger period throughout the State…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police are investigating the destruction by fire of a car in Stephens Road during the night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A mattress and dressing table in a fiat in Macquoid Street were destroyed by fire early…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Due to drying conditions the bush fire danger is increasing and the ACT Bureau of Meteorology commenced issuing bush fire ratings on October 1, a month earlier than usual…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Police said that a fire in a Queanbeyan house on Wednesday afternoon was caused by a young…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The rear portion of premises occupied by a firm of painters and decorators in the West Queanbeyan industrial area was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Member for Monaro, Mr. Steve Mauger, has appealed to the Government for more permanent staff and a second engine to supplement Queanbeyan Fire Brigade. Mr. Mauger outlined the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queanbeyan Fire Brigade yesterday was called to a chimney fire in a house, owned by Mr. R. Griffiths,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yarrowlumla Shire is to make further inquiries into the possibility of purchasing a heavy fire fighting vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Workmen today started cleaning up the burnt remains of an accommodation block adjacent to Royalsâ Accommodation Centre in Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, from which eight men escaped early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FLAMES leaped 13ft from a garbage bin outside the Capital Cafe, Monaro Street, at 1.50…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Chief Secretary, Mr. Ian Griffith, is examining requests for an upgrading of fire fighting services in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A total ban on the lighting of fires in the open on the Southern Tablelands was reintroduced from 12 noon today and will remain in force until 9 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Chief Co-ordinator for the Bush Fire Council of N.S.W., Mr. W. Hurditch, has declared a State of Emergency in connection with a bush fire which has been burning in timber country about 14 miles south-east of Queanbeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As I drove towards Burra on the Old Cooma Road I asked myself âwhat happens in a bush fire?â This particular fire started about a week ago when a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A total ban on the lighting of fires in the open on the Southern Tablelands will remain in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfires, which have been burning since last Friday in timber country near…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →