Fire Ahead!
BISHOP BARNES, of Birmingham, is reported to have ventured a prophecy. He warns us that continued experiments…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Apartment House on Fire
MONTREAL, Thurs. (AAP.).--A fire roared through a Chicago apartment, house, to-day, killing four and injuring at least…
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BRISBANE, Fri.--A 16-year-old schoolgirl slid down a pole after pushing, her mother over a 15ft. awning to escape from a…
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TAMWORTH, Fri.--Joan Partridge (4), of Hanging Rock, was severely burned today when she fell into a fire in the kitchen grate…
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SEATTLE, Sunday. (AAP).--A coastguard cutter took off 17 crew-men and one woman from the grounded leaking freighter…
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LITHGOW, Sunday. Five railwaymen risked their lives to clear two trucks loaded with explosives from a blazing building at Bowenfels last night. Thousands of pounds worth…
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SYDNEY, Mon.-- Local councils throughout the State are being advised by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Matthews) to place…
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COONAMBLE, Mon.-- F[?]ames leaped 60 feet into the air and a bank building was extensively damaged, when 500…
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Sir,--This year's Fire Prevention Week and the Bush Fires Prevention campaign will open on November 14…
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London, Thurs. (AAP).-- Thq great Mersbyside warehouse blaze was reported to be under control 18½ hours…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday. (AAP-Reuter).--One man was burned to death and two others badly burned when they…
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A WARNING of the danger of extensive bushfires was given yesterday by Inspector W. O. McEwan. He said the threat would be very real if continued dry weather was accompanied by favourable Minds. The counrtyside was drying very fast…
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BERLIN, Mon. (A.A.P.).--Four hundred miners were killed in a fire in the Soviet zone uranium mines at…
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Mr. Robert Macnamara, an officer of the Sydney Metropolitan Fire Brigade, spent some days at Sawtell this week. He was…
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BEGA, Thurs.--Still wearing their night attiire, residents of the Royal Hotel, at Candelo (14 miles from Bega) rushed…
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The new fire alarm siren is sufficiently strong to be heard by all firemen in the city in any weather, said the officer in charge…
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TOPEKA (Kansas). Friday. (AAP).--Embers from a burning garage have reduced to a charred ruin the century-old…
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TAMWORTH, Sun. -- Wheat worth approximately £12,000 was destroyed by fire in the Gunnedah district this afternoon…
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NORMA (Oklahoma), Sun. (AAP).--A wooden dormitory housing 400 University of Oklahoma students, was burned to the…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--The Weather Bureau to-night issued a warning of extreme bushfire danger over most of N.S.W…
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