Fire Destroys Launch
SYDNEY.—A naval motor patrol launch was burned to the waters edge when it caught fire at its moorings in Sydney harbor last night. Flames…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
240 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 12
Wounded, But Sang As He Put Out Fire In Bomber
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA.—When an Allied bomber caught fire in mid-air in a battle with 18 Zero fighters, a wounded and bewildered Australian bombardier sang "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" as he handed a fire extinguisher to an American companion, who was also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roys Start Fire?
SYDNEY.—Detectives are inclined to the belief that boys were responsible for starting the fire which destroyed sections of the Argyle tile…
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Twice the Central Fire Brigade was called out this afternoon. Short runs were made to a burning transformer pole in Beryl Street, and a small fire…
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MELBOURNE.—Within half an hour, a fire wiped out the main block of the Phoenix Biscuit Co. Pty. Ltd., Abbotsford. Damage is…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called out twice yesterday afternoon. The calls were to a burning transformer pole in Beryl Street, and a small fire on a vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rescued From Fire
SYDNEY.—Mrs. Helen Hayes, of North Sydney, was rescued from a blazing room of a residential in Alfred Street, Milson's Point, early today by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kane's Casino Blaze
NEW YORK, July 8.—Kane's Casino, one of the best-known landmarks on New York's Bronx, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Factory Fire DAMAGE £3,000 ADELAIDE. July 8
Tens of Ply veneer and valuable machinery were destroyed involving demos? amounting to £3,000 in a fire at Furness Ltd., factory at Edwardstown this…
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SYDNEY.—It is now believed that the firebug: who started 14 different fires in four city hotels yesterday is identical with the person who is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three Hours Three Hotel Fires Arson Squad Investigating Sydney. July 15
Detectives are investigating a series of fires which broke out in living rooms of three city hotels within three hours of [?] other early tonight. They have no…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Damages Historic Gaol Moss Vale, July 16
Berrima Gaol, erected in 1830, was severely damaged by fire this morning, and the whole of the upper portion and most of the roof was destroyed. Only…
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At 3.14 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the fire brigade was called through the local exchange to No. 14 Argent Street where a fire had broken out in the wood and iron home of Frank Galea. The…
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"There has been an increase in malicious false alarms recently. The public is asked to co-operate in stamping out this menace," said District…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russian Symphony Composed Under Fire in Leningrad New York, July 13
Artrum Toscanini conducted the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra in the Western Hemisphere premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Was Too Big Melbourne, July 22
Before accompanying a party of skiers through showstorms to the Mount Buller Chalet yesterday. the manager tele[?]oned instructions that a good [?] be…
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SYDNEY.—It is now estimated that the damage caused by the outbreak of fire early on Sunday morning at the Hotel Carlton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Escape By Fire SYDNEY, July 29
How he made his sensational escapefrom a cell beneath the Newtown Court House was related by Alfred Henry Singleton to Detective Sawyer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Factory Fire Deaths Smoking In Kapok Room SYDNEY. July 29
Evidence that he had lit a cigarette while in the kapok room and be then notice a fire in the kapok fluff [?] the table was given by Norman…
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SYDNEY.—An intensive hunt of the district is being made by the police today for a man who made an attempt to burn down a weatherboard…
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