Fire Brigade Calls
Central Fire Brigade answered two calla during the week-end. An unoccupied house was practically gutted and atvthe other fire a large quantity…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
356 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 14 of 18
Salvage Depot Fire
At 6.34 on Saturday night the Fire Brigade was called to the Red Cross salvage depot at the rear of the Musicians Club. It was found that…
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The Fire Brigade was called at about 6.30 yesterday morning to 692-Argent Street, where it was found that a five-roomed wood and iron house unoccupied…
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The Fire Brigade was called to a chimney fire at the Commercial Hotel soon alter 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Within a few minutes the fire was…
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Sydney, October 19.—When a spark from an oxywelding apparatus came in contact with a bit[?]men storage plant at the B.H.P. works at Marrickville,…
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TO raise further funds for the establishment of Anzac House in Sydney, the N.S.W. Fire Brigades are backing a State-wide Queen Contest. Local Fire Brigade personnel will work with members of 36 other stations in the Western Districts to support the Western Queen, Miss Phyllis…
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A weatherboard cottage of four rooms situated at 228 Wilson Street was severely damaged, by fire about 9.45 a.m. yesterday. Furniture from the two front…
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Yesterday morning a five-roomed weatherboard and iron cottage a South Broken Hill was severely damaged by fire…
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Sydney, October 23.—The newspaper and parcel mails to members or the services in the New Guinea area were badly damaged by a serious fire on a…
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The Central Fire Brigade had a busy time over the week-end. They answered three calls, but each proved to be a malicious false alarm. There…
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SYDNEY,—Mr. Bertie Land Barber has been appointed Deputy Chief Fire Officer by the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners…
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At 10.30 o'clock this morning the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 68 Beryl Street, a house occupied by Mrs. Denham. A wood and iron…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 68 Beryl Street, a house occupied by Mrs. Denham at 10.30 yesterday morning, where it was found that a wood…
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Smoke issuing from one of tne buildings at the Globe Proprietary Ltd's, yards at 8.45 o'clock last night was responsible for the Central Fire…
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At 8.45 last night it was reported to the fire Brigade that smoke wes issuing from a building at the Globe Timber Mills. The brigade turned out and found…
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SYDNEY.—Hundreds of Christmas puddings and cakes intended for service personnel in northern, battle areas have been destroyed in a train…
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On Sunday morning a patrol party at the South mine discovered smoke on the 1370 level. Fire fighting equipment was brought into action…
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The "Cross of Fire," by a South Australian author, is intended as a challenge to the "modernist" school of poetry, in that it is cast in the…
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Wagga. November 5.—The town's biggest fire for many years occurred in the early hours of this morning when the whole third storey of the Commercial…
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On Sunday morning the regular patrol at the South mine noticed an emission of smoke in some old workings at the 1.370 level. The regular fire lighting…
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