Super-fort. Fire-bombs on Tokio
NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Three Super-Fortresses, flying individually, dropped incendiary bombs on the Tokio area on…
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Fire Fighters Need More Equipment Up-to-date Methods Used By a Staff Correspondent
Lives were lost in bushfires in New South Wales in 1944 and damage between £20,000 and £30,000 caused, an officer of the Forestry Commission said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schoolboys Join Search Among Ruins of Leura Home Boys search for pennies in fire ruins
Pennies belonging to a hospital collection were the only undamaged property three schoolboys, Ken McClelland, 16, Jeff…
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Bushfires which destroyed eight houses at Leura on Monday and threatened other homes in Leura and Katoomba, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfires Dying Down on Mountains Light Rain Helps Put Out Flames
Light, misty rain and absence of wind lost night relieved Katoomba and Leura of immediate danger from bushfires, which destroyed eight homes on Monday…
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BUSHFIRES which raged in the Katoomba-Leura district for three days had practically subsided Inst night…
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BUSHFIRES which raged in the Katoomba-Lcura district for three days had practically subsided last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Victim Was Catholic
Miss Jenny Cavanagh. who was burnt to death in a bushfire last month, was a member of a pioneer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires in Penrith Danger in Woodriff Street
Penrith Fire Brigade has been busy suppressing fires in the town withiin the past week. On Thursday, December 28, about…
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St. Marys Bush Fire Brigade has done some fine work in combatting recent fires in the district. At the week-end they strove hard to suppress…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Burned in Coogee Fire
A man and two women were burned when a fire broke out in the kitchen of a residence in Powell Street, Coogee, last night…
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Parramatta division of the St. John Ambulance is appealing for funds to replace medical equipment lost in the fire at St. John's Hall last month…
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Drastic restrictions on the lighting of fires are contained in a notification issued today by the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, under powers conferred upon him…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Fires which broke out in three Geelong hotels within half an hour last night are believed to be the work of a…
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Carelessness caused the bushfires which devastated the Blue Mountains and…
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MORE than 50 airmen, and firemen and police are fighting to prevent a bushfire, covering nearly two square miles in the vicinity of…
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MORE than 50 airmen, and firemen and police are fighting to prevent a bushfire, covering nearly two square miles in the vicinity of…
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YEAR after year we see valuable property destroyed by fire, simply because the authorities have failed to take reasonable precautions to…
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The bushfires were laying the foundation of very extensive erosion, said Mr. H. E. Messer, chairman of the Bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman, aged 65, saves her mother, 90, from Five Dock blaze
DASHING through flames to rescue her 90-year-old mother, a woman aged 65, was severely burned when their home in Harrabrook-avenue, Five Dock, caught fire last night. The woman, Margaret Daisy Lake, was taken by Central District…
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