Switchboard Catches Fire
The Central Fire Brigade was called out 5.30 a.m. yesterday to answer a call at the Galena Street Power Station, when the 2,300 volt switchboard on the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Fire Brigade Calls
The Central Fire Brigade had three calls yesterday. At 5.30 a.m. they went to the Galena Street Power Station where the 2,500 volt switchboard…
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Two further calls were received on Thursday night, both being caused by fused electric light w[?]es. Owe call was, from Beryl Street, at 9…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called out yesterday at 6.55 p.m. to attend a fire at the Broken Hill Recreation Club, 299 Argent Street. Part of the…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called out Tuesday at 6.55 p.m. to attend a fire at the premises of the Broken Hill Recreational Club, 299 Argent Street…
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SYDNEY.—Bilabula homestead, one of the show places in the Young district, was destroyed by fire on Monday…
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LONDON, January 28.— The £500,000 Shetland flying boat, the only one of her type so far built, caught fire and sank at her moorings at…
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GOULBURN.—A man who liked to see fire brigades and crowds had admitted to starting 22 fires in Braidwood in a year, according to evidence…
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SYDNEY.—Damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused when a fire broke out in a city manufacturing company's factory in Sussex…
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LONDON, January 29.—A woman and two children have lost their lives, and the woman's husband and another child are lying gravely ill in…
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Firemen are a bit like sailors—they can turn their hands to most things, and they made a good job of hosing the Sydney Town Hall considerably cleaner when they…
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SYDNEY—The Alto Glen Rest Home in French's Forest is endangered by bush fires which are approaching it from all sides. The…
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Central Fire Brigade was called out at 3.43 p.m. today to premises belonging to Walter Sully in Argent Street, where a small quantity of…
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Cleveland, February 3.—At least 40 person were killed in a fire which swept a one storey residence for aged men and women in the suburb of…
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Rain water coming in contact with bags of lime stored at Walter Sully's caused the Fire Brigade to be called to the premises on Saturday…
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Sydney, February 3.—About £30,000 worth of damage was done to the storeroom of the International Harvester Co. early this morning when a fire gutted…
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Yesterday afternoon at 2.40 the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 550 Lane Street where a quantity of packing cases and rubbish had caught slight at the rear…
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Cairns, February 5.—A fire causing many thousands of pounds damage broke out at midday today at Cal[?] Timber Ltd. and destroyed the plymill, 12 kilps of…
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It was reported to the Central Fire Station by a civilian at 10.25 p.m. on Saturday, that the insulation of electrical wires leading into G. Wood Son…
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The Fire Brigade was called out today to their biggest job since January 4, when a shop and dwelling caught fire in Chloride Street. At…
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