Rubbish Fire
South Fire Brigade was summoned at 6.7 p.m. yesterday to a fire in a small quantity of rubbish in an open yard at the rear…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
349 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 18
Fire On Bride Ship Sabotage?
SYDNEY.—As a bride ship was steaming up the coast yesterday a fire was discovered in the lounge. Police who boarded…
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PORT AUGUSTA—Kingoonya, on the East West line, and stations nearby, are short of food following a spectacular fire on…
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Sydney, August 2.—Sabotage is believed, to have been responsible for a Are in the lounge room of the liner Orbit a discovered when fine was…
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who won first prize in a £10,000 consultation were all smiles when they examined their winning ticket in the name, of ''This Time" syndicate. From left—Messrs. Lionel Foster, Jack Dawes, former captain of the South Adelaide football team, and…
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The South Fire Brigade was called out to answer two malicious false alarms yesterday. Both were given from the…
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Central Fire Brigade was called to a chimney fire at the Baby Health Centre at 6.54 p.m. yesterday. The fire burned itself…
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At 6.45 p.m. last night the Five Brigade were summoned to the Baby Health Centre in Sulphide Street to extinguish a chimney fire. The fire…
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At 11.40 o'clock yesterday morning the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 624 Chappie Lane, where there was a chimney on fire. It was quickly…
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BRISBANE.—A fire which raged for three hours in Winton, Central Queensland, destroyed seven buildings and…
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At 11.50 a.m. yesterday the Fire Brigade received a call from 195 Oxide Street, where a chimney had caught fire. The blaze was extingulshed…
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BRISBANE.—Hundreds of square miles of droughtstricken south-eastern Queensland is aflame from…
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Johanesburg, August 14.—Six native mineworkers were crushed to death in a stampede at the Subnegal mine, where police fired on 1,500 mine…
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Hundreds nf squire miles of drought stricken south-eastern Queensland were a flame on Wednesday night. From Bundaberg to the New South…
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ADELAIDE.—A fire in a frock shop in Rundle Street, city, today had similar features to the fire deliberately lit in the house of the Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. McCann) at Tusmore last month…
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SYDNEY.—More than 50 detectives and uniformed police were rushed to Long Bay gaol last night to stand guard over prisoners who had to be moved from their cells when fire broke out in a section of…
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SYDNEY.—An old man was burnt to death when his home was gutted by fire early today. The dead man was Alexander…
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Brisbane.—Guests of the Royal Hotel at Oakey, in southern Queensland, had to jump to safety when a fire destroyed the hotel…
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Brisbane, August 19.—A fire which menaced the whole shopping centre of the township of Oakey, 30 miles from Toowoomba was driven back by a…
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Calcutta, August 19 — Over three thousand fires in the past forty-eight hours blazed throughout Calcutta as a result of riots between Hindus and…
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