"House Warming" at Fire Station
A number of the women who have been training at the Central Fire Station during recent months as members of the Women's Auxiliary…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
236 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 12
Women Incinerated When Tram and Petrol Waggon Collide and Catch Fire
BRISBANE.—Two unidentified women were incinerated and 24 persons were injured, some seriously, when a tram car and a military petrol waggon collided at Moorooka last night. It is believed that a 30-gallon petrol tank on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →200 Square Miles of Italy in Allied Hands Naples Ringed With Are Of Fire And Destruction LONDON, September 7
Forces of the 8th Army are now reported to be engaging German rearguards in the Giajataura area tonight offer sweeping through Palmi. Earlier reports stated that about 200 square miles in the toe of Italy had fallen to the British and Canadians…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Inquiring Into Station Fire
Wilcannia police are inquiring into an outbreak of fire which occurred at Mena Murtee Station late on Friday night or early Saturday morning. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railroad Fire PHILADELPHIA, September 12
The American Associated Press stales that a fire lasting four hours at Pen[?]sylavnia railroads Broad Street station left sixteen trucks and six passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bryansk Now Under Russian Fire
LONDON, September 13.—The Russians today made further advances on all the main fronts. Their great offensive is moving towards a new climax. Bryansk, hinge of the central and southern fronts, is now under Russian shell fire. Two railway stations about two and a half miles south-east of Bryansk were captured today as the Red Army closed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women's Fire Auxiliary Are Worried Over Coupon Surrender
LOCAL women who have been training as members of the Women's Fire Auxiliary Corps, are more concerned about the 27 coupons they have to surrender for their uniform and accessories, than the actual cost of the outfit which is priced at £3/10/-. Although the coupon rating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Fire at U.s. Rail Station
NEW YORK, September 14.— Associated Press of America reports that a fire which lasted for four hours in the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broad…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Hospital Ship Sydney. September 14
A small quantity of oil is believed to have leaked into an air box under one of the boilers in the engine room of a hospital ship to an Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Children Perish in House Fire
MELBOURNE.—Two young children, Lorraine Frances Quarrel (6) and Brian Alexander King (2), were burned to death and four of hers were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Struggling Couple Lose Home In Fire
SYDNEY.—Within £30 of making the final payment on their home, which they had been struggling for 30 years to purchase, Mr. and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Brigade Calls
At 10.21 o'clock yesterday the Central Fire Brigade was called to premises at 487 Beryl Street, where a fire had occurred in a bus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suspicious Fire Among Scrap Wood
SYDNEY.—Hundreds of tons of kindling wood wore destroyed at an army salvage depot in Bourke Street, Zetland. Official in charge said that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Sweeping Banana Areas
BRISBANE.— Damage estimated at thousands of pounds has been caused by a fire which is sweeping through the Upper Tallebudgera…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mena Murtee Fire
The mutter of the burning of the men's quarters at Menu Murtee Station. Just out of Wilcannia. was handed over to the District Coroner, Mr. Fred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Ravaging Banana Lands
Damage estimated at thousands of pounds has been caused by a fire which is sweeping through the Upper Tallebudgera banana plantations, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires in Zinc Changehouse
Two fires were caused in the Zi[?] Corporation changehouse by Spoutancous combustion on Thursday. Damage was done to the working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Light Works
At 9.15 o'clock last night the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to the Municipal Electric Light Station in Galena Street, but the blaze was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire At Mena Murtee
A fire at Mena Murtee Station on September 10 totally destroyed a four-roomed wood and iron house an its contents. used as quarters for station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Council's Electricity Plant
A spectacular blaze which was not as dangerous as it seemed was caused at the Galena Street electric power station last night when a large exhaust…
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