Fire Brigade Changes
First-Class Fireman T. Nolan, who has been attached to Central Fire Station since April, 1944, has received notice of transfer to headquarters in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Refrigerator Fire
A small fire occurred in a refrigerator at the home of Mrs. Lily Caroline Parr, 629 Chapple Street, North Broken Hill, at 2.30 a.m. yesterday…
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The Central Fire Brigade received 125 calls during 1945. Of these 57 were actual fires, 10 chimney fires, and 58 false alarms…
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SYDNEY.—Several persons received slight burns in escaping from a block of flats which were destroyed by fire at Springwood early this…
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The Fire Brigade was called at 12.18 yesterday to a fire in a rubbish dump in a vacant allotment in Beryl Street, just off Chloride Street. The fire was…
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Central Fire Brigade was called at 1.35 p.m. today to a fire in a shed at the rear of premises belonging to Syd Gould, at the corner of Mica…
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Sydney, January 6.—Three people died and forty collapsed in heat yesterday (Saturday), bringing the total deaths from the heat in two days to six. Sydney's highest temperature yesterday was 103.1 degrees between 2 and 3 p.m. Bush fires occurred in several…
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KALGOORLIE. — Rescued from a bed on the front verandah of his house just before the building collapsed from fire on Christmas Eve, Richard…
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Melbourne, January 7.—Several valuable horses were endangered by a fire which began in an unused bungalow at Mr. J. Jury's training stables, Albert…
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KALGOORLIE.—A fire in the electric pumping station on the 1300ft. level of the Horseshoe No. 2 shaft of the Lake View and Star mine resulted in all underground work being suspended in the mine yesterday, as well as in the major portion of the Great Boulder mine…
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MELBOURNE.—Alan Alfred McLennan (27), of Burwood, and Keith Angus (22), of Essendon, were burned to death last night…
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Kalgoorlie, January 9.—All underground work in the Lake View and Star mine and in a large portion of the Great Boulder mine has ceased as a result of a fire…
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BRISBANE. — Joseph Muddle (61) and Ethel May Burgess (40) were burned to death in a house at Kangaroo Point early this…
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Melbourne, January 10.—Bush and grass fires flared up i many parts of the state today when high temperatures were recorded rising to 1052…
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ADELAIDE.—After a 40-minutes fight, firemen from four fire stations gained control of a fire at the Tro[?]enside Woollen Mills, Taylor's Road,…
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Sydney, January 11.—With the greater part of New South Wales in the grip of a heat wave an RAAF plane today was detailed for fire spotting over State…
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SYDNEY.—High temperatures were again reported over the whole of the State this morning and the Weather Bureau expects them to rise still further, with bush fires presenting a serious danger. There were more than 30 readings of 105 degrees or more throughout the State…
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Adelaide, January 13.—After a big fight by [?]igades from several stations firemen at the end of an hour's effort gained control of a fierce blaze which ca[?]…
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Brisbane, January 13.—A big squad oil fire fighters remained on patrol duty to-day at Darra, 10 miles from the city where, after a six hours' desperate battle…
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London, January 14.—A letter to Hindenberg from one of Roehm's assistants implicates Goering and Goebbels in setting fire to the Reichstag in February. 1933, says an AAP report from Munich The Allies hold a typewritten copy of the letter which, however, is…
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