Fire at South
The second fire in Patton Street within three days, said to have been caussd by electric wires short circuiting, broke out last night…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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Salvage Expected From Cotton Store Blaze
Sydney, April 14.—Salvage experts are hopeful of recovering a large amount of the cotton bales damaged in the huge fire at the customs store at Waterloo…
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A small fire started in a chimney at Berrimsn's Cafe, Argent Street, this morning arid at 6.45 o'clock the Centrel Fire Brigade answered…
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SYDNEY.—Damage estimated at £5,000 was caused by a fire which parctibally destroyed Glebe Cabinet Works, at Annandale, shortly…
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Now York, April 14.—Both sides in the Costa Rican war issued a cease fire order at 5 a.m. yesterday and a settlement of the month old struggle is reported…
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Yesterday at 6.45 a.m. the Centralman's Cafe, Argent Street. It was found that a chimney was on fire. This was…
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Melbourne. April 2-.—Trapped by are in the office of Australian National Airways today two men were severely burned. They are R. J. Dowler, of…
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MELBOURNE. — Three families lost all their possessions in a fire at Watsonia emergency housing camp…
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MELBOURNE.—Two men were severely burnt on the hands, arms and faces when a fire broke out in the drawing office of Australian…
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MELBOURNE.—Fire extensively damaged cargo in a hold of the steamer Tember, 7500 tons, at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, this morning. Firemen fought the blaze for more than four hours before they…
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SYDNEY.—A fire early today swept through big stacks of paper and wood for half a mile outside the mills of Australian Paper…
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Sydney, April 23.—Many homes were endangered early this morning when flames in Sydney's most spectacular fire for many years turned large paper and wood pulp stacks of the Australian Paper Mills, Matraville, into a raging inferno. Many…
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BRISBANE. —Eleven volunteer fire-fighters were injured during a fire which destroyed the rear portion of Maroochy Shire. Hall,…
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Sydney, April 28. — Members of the C.I.B. Arson Squad tonight were called in to investigate the cause of a city fire in which 31 firemen were overcome by smoke and fumes, six of them being admitted to hospital. The fire broke cut in the…
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Melbourne.—Arson is suspected in the fourth mysterious fire which has occurred in the 7000-ton British freighter Pemba in…
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Melbourne.—Three minutes before their blazing house in Main Road Upwey, collapsed, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Charlwood leaped to…
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Melbourne, May 2.—Wireless patrol police had to fire a shot at a man last night before they could arrest him for the alleged assault of John Cecil wilson…
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Melbourne. — Firemen fighting a fire in the factory of Cox Bros. Ltd., furniture manufacturers, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, had to…
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Local officers at the Central Fire Station commenced a 56-hour week last Friday. As a result local platoons are left without full…
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Sydney.—A fierce fire followed a terrific explosion in a three-storey building at Imperial Chemical Industries, Matraville, early this…
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