Escape From a Forest Fire
The creek bed lay just past them, but at this season the creek was nearly dry. We knew that the fire would leap the stream. There were pools, however; one of these, a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1899
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Fires
On Friday morning Moss Vile was startled by the ringing of the fin belt fortunately however it proved to be a small affair. It was found that the boarded ceiling of a…
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A MEETING of the above was held Wednesday last (29th November) at the Town Hall, at which. Alderman Stephens (Mayor) presided. The minutes of the previous meeting were read…
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About 9 o’clock on Sunday night last at Moss Vale, just as the Church folk were returning home, some excitement was caused by an alarm of…
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A fire broke out shortly after 4 a m. Friday, in the largest business block in Kiama, viz.. Woods and Bullen’s wooden premises at the corner of Terralong and Shoalhaven streets,…
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The fire fiend baa been especially busy of late. At Albury on Wednesday Mr. F. H. Griffith, M.L.A., had three stacks of hay destroyed by fire…
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A Fire-Brigades demonstration was to have takenplace yesterday (Boxing Day) at Bathurst. It is stated that 700 visiting firemen are expected from various parts of the oolony and from Victoria. The…
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Gundagii, Wednesday—A [?] fire broke out at 1 O'clock yesterday on Messrs. J. and F. M.Evoy's Tarrabandra Estate. The…
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