False Fire Alarm
A false alarm called the Fire Brigade to the corner of Bromide and Thomas Streets at 4.30 yesterday. Children were seen hurrying away…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Farewell to Fire Brigade Officer
A farewell social was tendered Sub-Station Officer McDonald, of the Central Fire Brigade, last night at the station by members…
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Rome November 15.—In a panic which occurred after a fir in the naples Girls Convent School during a pageant honoring the Mother-Superior…
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Permanent firemen and volunteers tendered Sub Station Officer McDonald a farewell at the Fire Station on Tuesday night when he was…
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SYDNEY.—Five fires in widely, separated parts of the ship were discovered aboard the Asturias, a 22,000 ton liner,…
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Adelaide, November 21.—For having set fire to the home of the Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. W. F. J. McCann), Maurice Wilbur Albert…
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TWO trucks of chaff were severely damaged by fire and water, two tarpaulins were totally destroyed and the sides…
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SYDNEY.—On a charge of having maliciously set fire to the British liner Asturias last Friday, John Henry Holmes, 21,…
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NEW YORK, November 25.— The home of Miss Helen Keller, famous blind and deaf scholar and author, was burnt to the…
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At 10.15 o'clock yesterday morning Central Fire Brigade received a call to the Silverton Tramway Company's yards, where two trucks loaded with…
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At 8.35 o'clock last night South Pire Brigade was called to a house occupied by John Iris, at 347 Piper Street, where a fire…
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Recent tests by the R.A.A.F. with chemical anti-fire bombs have now proved that aeroplanes can be used for putting cut fires. Service aircraft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Public Meeting To Be Called On Staffing Of South Fire Station
A PUBLIC meeting of residents of South Broken Hill is to be called by the Mayor to discuss the staffing of the South Fire Station. The request was put before the monthly meeting of the…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 82 Cummins Street yesterday afternoon at 4.34 o'clock, and on arrival…
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SYDNEY.—A fire which caused £5,000 damage at Australian Paper Manufacturers Pty., Ltd., Matraville, is expected by firemen…
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Sydney, December 2—A second big outbreak of fire occurred this afternoon at the premises of Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd., at Matraville. while…
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The dangerousness of children playing with matches was exhibited yesterday afternoon when the Central Fire Brigade was called, to 82 Cummins Street…
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NEW YORK, December 3.—A trusteeship sub-committee considering the Australian draft agreement for the mandated…
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Melbourne. December 5.—Grass fires broke out in a number of suburban and country districts yesterday. Although most of the outbreaks were…
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NEW YORK, December 7. — In the nation's worst hotel fire disaster, the upper floors of the 15-storey Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta City, Georgia, were gutted this morning, and, according to United Press, 116 hotel…
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