4 Firemen Tramped in U.s Fire
NEW YORK, Jan 1— A dramatic fight is being waged to rescue four firemen who are…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
339 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 17
Winecoff Hotel Fire Inquiry
So that it may never happen again in the U.S.A., a grand jury has been appointed to inquire into how and why 127 people died in the holocaust which…
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London, January 5.—It Was officially announced last night that a fire which broke out on the liner Corinthle at Cammal Lat[?] shipyard at Birkenhead…
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BATAVIA, January 6.—Several fires have broken out in Palembang, oil port of Sumatra, and a pall of smoke hangs over the city, where serious street fighting was reported on Sunday…
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BRISBANE,—An outbreak of fire at the Aberdare Extended colliery at Caceview, in the Ips, wich district, prevented a…
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Fifteen hundred, lives are lost In fires In Britain every year and damage to the extent of £10,000,000 Is done by them. In an attempt to save these…
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LONDON, January 6.—Cause of the fire in the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Corinthic is believed to have been a short…
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A call through the Telephone Exchange last night at 8.5 o'clock sent the Central and South Brigades to 264 Wills Street, a…
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Last night at 8.5 o'clock Central Fire Brigade received d call to 264 Wills St., the home of Mr. Clifford Thompson. There had been a small fire in the…
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New York, January 9.—One of New York's costliest waterfront blazes for many years destroyed two Hudson River piers yesterday, causing damage…
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Mr. C. W. Maiden, said on Wednesday that he noticed while driving the Mildura bus on Tuesday that there had been a small grass fire on portion of…
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SYDNEY.—Members of the police arson squad went to Orange today to inquire into a fire in a cottage occupied by…
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LONDON, January 12.—Fifteen miners lost their lives when they were trapped behind a wall of fire and rock in Burn Grange shale…
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Wagga, January 13.—Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused in Wagga by the biggest fire for years when a cool store was gutted by fire…
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Perth, January 14.—Mrs. Florence Grace Wilke, 63,of Malda Vale, was burned to death when she was trapped by a bush fire near her home on…
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Melbourne, January 14—Forty grass fires broke out in Victoria "today and two bushfires broke out in the heavily timbered country near Walhalla and Ensay in Gippsland. The grass scrub fires were brought under control. The…
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SYDNEY—Thousands of fowls and turkeys were destroyed by a fire which gutted a cool store following an explosion at Wagga…
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Melbourne, January 14. — Five R.A.A.F. planes will bomb a "bush fire" about a mile from Anglesey on Thursday afternoon in an experiment to…
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Yesterday afternoon at [?] o'clock the Central Fire Brigade was summoned by a caller at the Station to a fire in the engine of a S.A. Brewing…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call to a fire at the corner of Cornish and Nicholls Streets at 8.25 a.m. yesterday…
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