Fire Fighting System Inadequate
MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Giving evidence to the Royal Commission on the Yallourn fire, to-day, Robert McKay, engineer in charge of coal supply,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
174 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 9
Fire Raid On London
LONDON, Thurs.--Raiders approaching London from the south-east ran into a heavy barrage of ack-ack during a…
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MELBOURNE, Wed .—Fourteen fires believed to have been caused by a car with a gas producer were extinguished by fire…
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LONDON, Wed.--United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators carried out the war's greatest fire raid when they battled through German fighter and ground defences to Berlin to-day. The British United Press correspondent at the Bomber Base…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--A fund to provide compensation payments to bush fire fighters who are injured while engaged in fire…
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LONDON, Tues.—More raiders than usual attacked London to-night, when there was the first general alert for a…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--A fire which gutted a large part of a chemical factory at Rosebery early to-day, causing damage estimated at more…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Mon.-- Twenty-one persons were fatally burned and 22 severely injured early to-day when a fire swept…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Increasing temperatures with squally northerly winds, together with the absence of rain is expected to…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.--Police blame an incendiarist for the tragic fire in New Amsterdam Hotel, which resulted in 22…
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LONDON, Sun.--Five babies, four of them boys, died in a fire in a Surrey house which had been converted by the Ministry…
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HARDEN, Mon.--While fighting a fire which destroyed 13,000 acres of grassland yesterday, Roy Dick had his foot crushed and…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Sir Henry Manning, during the second reading debate on the Fire Brigades Amendment Bill in the…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.--Nine people were hurt, and four of them were taken to hospital, when a film being shown in a…
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CANBERRA, Sun.-- A delegate to the Country Fire Brigades' Conference held here yesterday complaind that main road,…
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BOMBAY, Sat.-- One thousand persons, 67 of whom have since died in hospital, were injured in a fire which broke out last night…
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A fine of £5 was imposed on Albert Sullivan, of Grafton, in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of having…
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LONDON, Tues.--A Government communique from New Delhi states the total deathroll in the Bombay waterfront fire is…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.-- Extensive damage was caused by a fire in five, buildings in the centre of Hamilton chopping area to-day…
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COFF'S HARBOR, Fri.--Shortly after midnight on Thursday night Mrs. A. Stone, of Coramba road, Coff's Harbor, was…
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