Spectacular Tar Fire In Council Yard
Tar, from which excess water was being boiled, caught lire when it effervesced too violently and…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
322 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 8 of 17
Dog Saves Lives In House Fire
SYDNEY, This Afternoon. A woman said tills morning that a dog last night saved her own and her family's…
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GENEVA, Tuesday: Communist China's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Chou En-Lei, last night brought together the leaders of the…
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Fire totally destroyed an occupied hut on the Common at Bathurst yesterday afternoon. The fire is believed to have been caused by sparks from…
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Condition of a 76-years-old man severely burned on Sunday night, was reported by Orange Base…
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Sunny Corner Bushfire Brigade has re-formed, and its officers have been appointed. This advice was received at yesterday's Turon Shire…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Fire completely gutted the Commercial Hotel at Albion Park tonight…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday: Firemen had to cart water by truck to fight a fire which gutted the Commercial Hotel at Albion Park, near…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday: Fire caused £20,000 worth of damage to a caravan building factory at Mayfield this afternoon…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday. — Guatemala’s new military junta is control less than a day reached a cease-fire agreement yesterday with anti-Communist ravol[?]ienaries led by Colonel…
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Mrs. Anne Dickenson, of Orange, had been burnt to death in a cottage at South Strathfield when she fell asleep with a cigarette in her month, Parramatia Coroner, Mr. O. J. Lake, found on Wednesday. Mrs. Dickensonâs body…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A deliberate attempt BY thieves to set fire to a Camperdown storehouse early today was prevented by a nightwatchman…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon. An old man, who, with his horse and cart was a familiar sight in many country towns…
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SYDNEY, Friday: An elderly semicripple was burned to death in his room near Liverpool today. He was George Michael Struck, 76,…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Fire this morning destroyed the headquarters of the Chinese Nationalist Party headquarters…
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TRUNG GAI (Vietnam), Mon.--Senior French Union and Vietnam rebel army officers met in the mud hutted village of Trung Gai, 25 miles north of Hanoi yesterday for their first talks on practical steps for a cease fire in Indo China…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Loss From Bushfires N.S.W. Figures SYDNEY
Damage caused by bushfires in New South Wales during the 1953-54 season totalled £607,000, states the annual report of the Bush Fires…
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HANOI, Wednesday.--Indo-China truce negotiators at Trung Gai are reported to have taken up the actual procedure of ordering and carrying out a cease fire in the seven-year-old war, now in a crucial stage, but about 70,000 crack Vietminh troops are massed only 25 miles north…
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Orange Fire Brigade answered a call to the home of Dr. R. F. Matthews at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council And Faulty Fire Fighting Plant
Volunteer firemen had been called in to fight a tar blaze at the Council tar plant because the foam extinguishers…
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