Fire Officer Adams Leaves Tomorrow
Mr. H. Adams, who has been Sub-Station Officer at the Central Fire Station for the past two years and nine months, will…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
349 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 18
Jumped Out of Fire's Way
Brisbane, June 3.—Four men and a women jumped from a balcony to escape a hotel fire in Gymp[?]e last night. The woman was caught by a knot of people…
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CHICAGO, June 5.—When dawn came today the death roll in the fire that swept a section of the 22 storey La Salle Hotel, Chicago, last night, had grown to 59 with 230 people injured, including 32 firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Film Actor and Son in Ship Fire
NEW YORK, June 5 — Film and stage actor Victor Moore, and his son, Robert, were burned and injured when,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Chicago Hotel Fire 52 Dead; Many Injured
Chicago, June 5.—At least seven people died, and many we're injured, in a spectacular fire in the 23 storey La Salle Hotel in the centre of Chicago's financial district early today. Scores of quests fled down fire escapes and aerial ladders as flames swept…
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NEW YORK, June 6.—Suffocation caused most of the 59 deaths in the fire at La Salle Hotel, Chicago, on Wednesday, panic being responsible for one-quarter of them. Despite warning cries from spectators in the street seven guests in the hotel jumped from as high as the 18th floor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Chicago Fire Death Roll At Least 58
Chicago, June 6.—At least 58 persons, it is now stated, were killed and 200 injured in the early morning fire that swept through a section of the…
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Central Fire Brigade at 4.36 this afternoon was called by the police through the local Exchange to the Commercial Hotel…
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A fire occurred yesterday afternoon in a five-roomed cottage at 504 Chloride Street. The Central Fire Station received the call at…
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A five-roomed house situated at 304 Chloride Street, was badly damaged by fire on Monday. The house, which is owned by Mr. Collin Pearson, of 467…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Search For Bodies In Disastrous Hotel Fire
NEW YORK, June 11.—The semrch for more bodies of probable victims of the fire at the Canfield Hotel at Dubuque, Iowa, has been suspended while workmen brace the blackened walls of the hotel, which are sagging dangerously…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dog Starts Fire; Presents Lost
SYDNEY—A dog knocked over a kerosene lamp, and started a fire which destroyed wedding presents valued at £500 in a shed…
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The possible causes of a number of fires in homes recently, was due to the lack of correct branding of bottles of…
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Sydney, June 14.—Axel Peterson (48) pleaded not guilty and was remanded until June 21 on £200 ball at the Central Police Court today on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Extinguisher Stolen Windows Sprayed With Foam
Some time on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning a fire exting[?]isher was stolen from the Masonic Club, on the corner of Oxide an Blende Streets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reductions In Fire Insurance
As from July a large portion of the city will come under a reduced fire insurance rating, advises Mr. J. F. Hosking, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Export Meat Lost In Fire
SYDNEY.—A fire at the Metropolitan Ice and Cold Storage Works, Pyrmont, to-day ruined a large quantity…
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In these times of rising, prices one item at least has not followed the general trend. Mr. J. F. Hosking, local…
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SYDNEY—Her clothing soaked in kerosene an 82-year-old woman was dragged from a blazing bath at her home in…
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NEW YORK, Juno 27. — The Eastern Fire Chiefs' Association convention in New York ended suddenly when the alarm was…
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