Fire at Electricity Works
There was another fire at Galena Street powerhouse early this morning. Central Fire Brigade answered a call at 2.37 a.m., but found on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
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Incendiary Fires In San Francisco San Francisco, March 28
The police blame an i[?]st for the tragic fire in the New Amsterdam Hotel last night which resulted in the deaths of 32 persons and injury to 30…
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INNISFAIL.—When a low-level bridge over the South Johnstone Uiver, four miles from Innisfail, was damaged by Are this week, all rail…
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Shortly after 8 o'clock last night the Fire Brigade was called to a flat at Middleton's Argent Street, occupied by Mr. Parrior, where a chimney had…
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Five babies died in a fire in a Surrey home converted by the Health Ministry Into a temporary maternity home for evacuees…
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While fighting a fire which destroyed 12,000 acres of grassland yesterday, Roy, Dick had a foot crushed, and has been admitted to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germans Fire Propaganda and Shells Into Nettuno, Italy
LONDON, April 7.—The Germans today fired propaganda leaflets, as well as high explosive shells, into the Allies at Nettuno, south of Rome, says Reuter's correspondent at Allied Headquarters. The fire was concentrated on the…
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A fire broke out in a fiat at the rear of 479 Blende Street thia morning. The Central Fire Brigade answered thc call at 11.37 o'clock. A spark…
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PERTH.—Two glider training planes and a motor car worth £250, the property of the W.A. Flying Club, were destroyed by fire at a hangar…
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The Central Fire Brigade responded to a call at 11.37 o'clock yesterday to a flat at the rear or 479 Blende Street, where it was found that a spark from the fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazis-Rumanians Crowd On Beaches Under Heavy Fire
LONDON, April 14.—The two great Russian armies sweeping across the Crimea have linked up and are bearing down relentlessly on Sebastopol, the naval base on the west coast. Hundreds of toowns and villages have been…
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Four motor truck tyres in good condition and a large quantity of firewood were damaged by fire yesterday at 341 Morgan Lane, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Serious Dock Fire 67 People Dead Bombay, April 16
One thousand persons. 67 of whom hare died in hospital were injured in a fire which broke out last night in a congested part of Bombay. Several…
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A Government communique from New Delhi states that the total deathroll in the Bombay waterfront fire is now 336…
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Extensive damage was caused by fire to five buildings in the centre of the Hamilton shopping area today…
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MELBOURNE.—Hundreds of thousands of jute bags, about £600 in notes new machinery and electrical motors were destroyed by a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Now Fighting with Fanatical Bitterness Giving Troops Chance To Escape From Sebastopol Fires Raging in City and Port Which Are Shrouded in Smoke London, April 19
Germans in the Crimea are now really fighting, and with fanatical bitterness. They are standing before Sebastopol as the British fought at Calais during Dunkirk—to give their comrades a chance to escape as shipping becomes available…
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MELBOURNE.—[?]apped by a fire in their bedroom at Albert Street, Brunswic[?] on Saturday night. Norman A[?]ms (43),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Washhouse
Last night a fire broke out in a washhouse on premises at 109 Wills Street, Railway Town. A quantity of clothing was badly damaged, and the…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered two calls in the early hours of today. Both proved unnecessary. One was a deliberate false alarm, and the other…
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