Fight Keeps Fire From Tumbarumba
A bush fire seven miles from Tumbarumba raged for almost two days until it was brought under control on Saturday morning by 100 volunteers, who fought desperately to prevent the…
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37 Die in U.S. Mental Hospital Fire Horrors Officials Risk Lives to Make Heroic Rescues
DAVENPORT (Iowa), Sunday: The bodies of 37 women have been recovered from the ruins of a three-story mental ward of the Mercy Hospital, which was burned down early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Film on Bush Fire Brigades
Members of the local volunteer Fire Brigades will be interested in the educational film to be screened during the programme at the Roxy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire on "Braeside" Quick Save
A good save was made by Cootamundra and surrounding volunteer bush fire brigades when a fire broke out on "Braeside,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Palms Destroyed Early Morning Blaze; Many Grass Fires
In the early hours of Sunday morning a tire broke out among the palm trees in Palm Avenue, and there seemed a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Near Wallendbeen
A fire in a hundred-acre grass paddock on Mr. W. Forsyth's property "Braeside," near Wallendbeen, yesterday was quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Bush Fire Brigades
Tuesday's bush fire on "Braeside," the farming and grazing property which fronts the Cootamundra to Wallendbeen road,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →3000 Acres of Land Destroyed by Bush Fire
A BUSH FIRE WHICH HAD BEEN BURNING FOR SOME TIME AND REACHED ITS MOST SERIOUS STAGE ON A SIX-MILE FRONT ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY LAST AND FRIDAY MORNING, WAS BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Danger
The cureless use of fire in the South West at present could be disastrous Only on odd occasions has such a prolific growth of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wood Fire at Wagga Store; Little Damage
Little damage was caused when a fire broke out in a stack of wood in the backyard of J. Carew and Son's shoe store,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Editorial Comment— New Fire Engine Wanted at Gundagai
GUNDAGAI has the most efficient team of volunteer firemen in NSW, but for years they have been handicapped by being forced to use an obsolete fire engine. The hills on which this township is built reduce the speed of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire Can Compel Owners to Put in Fire Breaks
Shire Councils have been given power to compel landowners to put in fire breaks on their properties. If owners of properties refuse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1000 Acres Go in Bushfire Near Albury
ALBURY, Wednesday: More than 200 men from seven fire brigades this afternoon fought the first big bushfire of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Doubts Expressed at lllabo Shire Council Meeting in Junee Over Local Powers in New Bush Fires Act
DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE MODERNISED BUSH FIRES ACT (1949) AIMS AT PRESERVING LOCAL AUTONOMY, DOUBTS WERE EXPRESSED AT YESTERDAY'S ILLABO SHIRE COUNCIL MEETING WHETHER THIS…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Open-Air Fires Banned by Bland Council
WEST WYALONG, Thursday: Owing to extreme danger of bush and grass fires, the Bland Shire Council has placed total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at the Hotel, Coolamon
About 2.20 p.m., last Friday, Messrs, Morgan Bros., of the Hotel Coolamon received a telephone call inquiring if the fire, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yarranjerry Fire Supervision Ended a Danger Spot
In last weekâs âReviewâ was reported the circumstances of a fire in Yarranjerry Forest, due to a heap of sawdust set on fire by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Fire Calls
Wagga fire brigade extinguished two backyard fires on Saturday, at Copland's and the Australian Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Fire in Junee Building. Outbreak Found Shortly After Office Closed
A serious fire broke out two doors from the Junee Fire Brigade station just before one o'clock on Saturday last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Fires In Lockhart
The fire alarm was sounded in Lockhart at about 11.15 on Thursday evening. It did not seem many minutes before the local…
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