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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1929

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10-Mile Front Jenolan Caves Fire 2 Missing: No Anxiety Jenolan Caves

The Sun · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 3

"We are still smiling here; nobody has got the wind up," said Mr. Stilling, manager of The Caves House, this morning…

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The WORLD of Women Happy Round Camp Fire City Girls Get Away From Town Back Home Again

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 9

BACK home again after their summer camp at Springwood, the girls of the City Girls' Amateur Sports Association are full of praise for the officers…

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Bushfires in the Mountains On an Extended Front. Outbreaks in Northern Suburbs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 15

Bush fires are raging over a wide front on the Blue Mountains, in the Southern Mountains, and the Wollondilly Valley. Large areas of rough, bush country have been swept, and several townships endangered…

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Wollondilly Shire Council Advises Motorists of Bush-Fire Menace

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 11

The recent series of bush fires in the Wollondilly Shire as well as in many other parts of the State, has prompted the president of the shire council to…

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Beam Station Fire

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 1

Despite the fact that a portion of the main transmitting apparatus of the beam wireless station at Ballan is a heap of ruins as a result of the recent…

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State's New Fire Chief

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 13

Mr. Nance, who succeeded Mr. Jackson as Chief Officer of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades, will have cause to remember his initial week of directing the unending battle with the Fire Gods. The brigade received no…

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100 FIRES Sanatorium Saved After Fight Friday's Holocaust Women and Children Band to Save Homes

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 2

The sudden change in the wind on Friday night aided the grimy hosts of firefighters in checking the flames which threatened homes in almost every part of the State. This, in spite of the fact that the varying wind fanned the…

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Bush Fires Still Raging

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 1

Fierce fires swept over Ansac Range, Liverpool, on Saturday. Sporadic outbreaks are still occurring in the bush, adjacent to the outer suburbs…

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Bush Fires Brigades' Good Work

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

During the past month there have been many bush fires in Guildford, Fairfield, Cabra-Vale and Liverpool districts. The scrub in these localities is very…

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Bush Terror Fire Sweeps Vast Area Heroic Fighters Bathurst

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 9

Disastrous bushfires have occurred in Hazelgrove, Arkstone, Porter's Retreat and Isabella districts, but they are now more or less under control…

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Bitumen Blaze Work of Vandals

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

What might have been a very extensive and destructive conflagration was prevented by Liverpool Fire Brigade about 2.30 a.m. on New Year's Day…

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Fear of Fires Property Endangered Firebreak Wanted

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 6

Fear of bush fires prompted Mrs. Elizabeth Spinks, of Brixton-road; Berala, to write to Lidocmbe Council last week drawing attention to the prevalence of dense…

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Fiery Trap Driver's Plight in in Border Blaze Albury

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 5

JAMES M'LAURIN is in hospital suffering from severe burns received while fighting a bush fire on his property at Holbrook…

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Fire at Dungog. Dungog

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 12

A fire occurred in the main street yesterday afternoon, when a wooden residence owned by Nurse Rapson, of Gosford, and occupied by W. Spiers, was destroyed, with its…

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Shops Endangered Fire in Lidcombe

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 1

Business premises near the town hall, Lidcombe, had a narrow escape when fire broke out in the back yard of Mr. L. Johnson's hairdressing saloon last week…

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Beam Service. Continued After Ballan Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 16

Business, at the York-street beam office went on as usual, despite the fact that a portion of the main beam transmitting apparatus at Ballan had been destroyed by fire…

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Lost in Fire Art Union Tickets

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 10

IN the fire that recently destroyed the Shone family home, at Stanford Merthy, the butts of a book of tickets in the big Xmas Box Art Union being…

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Homesteads Saved Plucky Fire Fighting Bathurst

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 7

Bush fires a wept an extensive area in Bathurst district yesterday and did much damage. Thousands of acres of grass welt burned miles of [?] destroyed…

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Gigantic Break to Encircle Fire Albury

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 7

Mr. John Ross, M.L.A., who holds large landed interests at Holbrook, where a bushfire is raging, left for Sydney this morning…

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Cycle in Flames Speedway Crowd As Fire Brigade

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 5

A crowd of about 303 people speculated as to the ultimate fate a 1928 Dunelt motor-cycle, owned by R.V. Thomas, which caught fire at the…

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