Fireman Hurt in Fall at Wagga Fire
A member of the Wagga Fire Brigade suffered, probable concussian and a forehead wound while fighting a minor blaze at…
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Bushfire Captain Fined No Notice Given Bushfire
Ronald Stanley Howard, captain of Burringbar bushfire brigade, was fined £30, at…
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LARGO, Florida, Monday (AAP): A fire swept through a nursing home for the aged yesterday and burned to death…
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Ronald Stanley Howard, captain of Burringbar bushfire brigade was fined £30 at Murwillumbah, for lighting a…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Fourteen people asleep in a Healesville guesthouse early today escaped in their night…
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PERTH, Friday: Fire destroyed the 77 feet crayfish freezer boat North Cape at anchor near Green Islets, 20…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: About six acres of heavily-timbered scrub were destroyed by a bushfire which began in the…
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LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): The outlawed Irish Repulican Army is believed to have been responsible for attempts late…
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Steady rain on Saturday morning stopped what threatened to become a major bushfire in the Gregadoo area. The fire started on Friday…
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NEW YORK, Mon. (AAP): A mother and four of her 10 children were burned to death yesterday when fire…
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The Fire Brigade was called out this morning to assist in extinguishing a fire which got out of control while workmen…
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Sleepers were awakened from their slumbers about midnight on Monday night by the eerie clang of the…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: Fires were started in almost every house in Dudley Street, Brighton, early today when a short circuit caused vivid flashes of electricity to run along the…
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Expenditure of £1060/- 15/4 for purchase of bushfire fighting, equipment for the 1953/54 season was…
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Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Quirk, of Temora, recently sent their furniture from that town following the sale of their…
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More than usual excitement was caused at Tumut yesterday, when during the Tumut-Temora football match, near the playing field caught on fire. The area is covered with long dry grass, and the blaze started…
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The Farmers and Settlers' Association's Wagga branch secretary (Mr. W. W. Vonarx) said on Saturday night that when a bushfire broke out landholders should immediately contact their Shire Clerk instead of ringing the local police…
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A well-attended meeting of the Bidgeemia Bushfire Brigade was recently held in the Bidgeemia Hall. Business was to discuss…
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In a presidential minute read at last week's meeting of the the Shire Council Cr. H. Uhr said that a meeting of the…
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Several minor cases [?] h[?] at the sitting of the on Wednesday [?] last Junee Court of P[?]tty [?]…
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