Small Fire Yesterday
In the early hours of yesterday morning (at 1.20 o'clock) South Fire Brigade was summoned to 280 Wills Street, where a fire, had started in a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Another Fire Engine
Central Fire Brigade has taken delivery of a fire engine from Sydney to replace the second engine they had. The old machine has been returned to…
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Station Officer V. Dollman, his wife and two children, will arrive in Broken Hill on Friday to take over duties at the Central Fire…
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A small clothes fire occurred in the bathroom at. 223 Boughman Street about 7.19 last night. Both the South and Central Brigades answered the call. Little…
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Yesterday the Fire Brigades received three calls, but two of them were malicious false alarms. The first was received by Central Fire Brigade at 2…
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At 2.1 a.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade received a malicious false alarm to the corner of Oxide and Mica Streets. The…
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SYDNEY.—While. a fire was raging through the Methodist Ladies' Collegee at Burwood yesterday, many girl boarders…
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Sydney, March 21.—Nearby residents said they were awakened by an explosion preceding a fire which earned ten thousand pounds worth of damage…
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London.—Two hundred firemen are fighting a fire on the liner Monarch of Bermuda, which is in dry dock at Hebburn-on-Tyne (Northumberland)…
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The Central Fire Brigade received a call to North mine lease at 7.5 o'clock last night, where a fire had started in a disused…
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At 7.5 o'clock last night the Central Tire Brigade was called to the North Mine lease where there was a fire in a disused winderhouse. The…
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SYDNEY.—Eight fire brigades were rushed to Glebe Island today when a ure broke out on board the 9,000-ton overseas ship…
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For some time a "hot spot" in the North Mine has been giving concern. That there is a fire there is an established fact, but on Thursday the exact…
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The Check Inspector. Mr. W. O'Connell. visited the North Mine yesterday and reported: In company with Mr. B. Adam…
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Polestine, March 31.—Army and civilian fire brigades were summoned to fight a fire in oil installations at Haifa. Blazing oil from a smashed pipeline was reported to have blown up oil tanks. It was the biggest fire Haifa has ever…
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SYDNEY.—A fier staff members at the 112th A.G.H., Concord, put out two fires last night detectives arrested a 23…
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On Sunday evening at 7.45 o'clock the Central Fire Brigade received a call through the Telephone Exchange to the Brewer's…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 80 Cobalt Street to a smalt chimney fire at 6.04 p.m. last night. The fire burnt itself out and there was…
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NEW YORK, April 16.—The Duke of Windsor early today helped two bellhops to put out a fire with an emergency hose in the exclusive Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The fire broke out about midnight in the 36th floor…
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New York, April 18.—Fresh fires flaring up in Texas City last night brought renewed peril to the devastated Gulf of Mexico port—less than three hours after it had been announced that an end was in sight to the chain of disasters which wrecked the city and left about one fifth of its…
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