Fire Menaces Explosives Depot
ADELAIDE.—A hundred fire-fighters stopped a grass fire within a mile of Smithfield ammunition magazine yesterday afternoon…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
425 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 22
Rubbish Fire At Service Station
Yesterday at 12.5 p.m. Central and South Fire Brigades turned out to what was found to be a rubbish fire. A call was received that there was a fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →France Plays With Fire In Currency
RUSSIA began currency devaluation this time, and apparently added greatly to the current misery there. France,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News From Ivanhoe Bush Fires Fought and Conquered
The hot weather experienced last week is continuing, temperatures over the hundred were recorded again There has been very little relief from the heot even ot night time. With the continuation of the dry weather the danger of bush fines in the…
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A small laundry fire at 338 Chloride Street was extinguished yesterday by the Brigade with a garden hose. Slight damage was caused. The fire occurred…
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The Central Brigade was called to a small fire in a laundry at 358 Chloride Street at 3.34 p.m. yesterday. No structural damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Search for Fire Maniac Destructive Victorian Outbreaks
Melbourne, January 27. — Police and officers of the Forestry Department have been ordered to track down the galloping incendiarist who is he[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →White Cliffs Items Interest in Netley Fire
Great interest in the Netley fire has been aroused in White Cliffs district and from this quarter the appeal goes forth to all travellers to be most careful with the use of matches or fire. People a this quarter have been…
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The Netley fire that commenced on Tuesday morning of last week was brought under control on Monday and is now well in hand. It devoured more than about 200 square miles of beautiful feed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Around The District Heat and Bushfires
For the last week temperatures have been over the hundred mark, and have caused considerable inconvenience to the aged and the very young particularly. There have been bush fires also, but net, it is thought, due to spontaneous combustion or dry…
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A grass fire at Yudnapinna Station (S.A.), which has been burning for the past two or three days, is now encroaching on adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Hotel Fire Tragedy In U.S.
St. Albans (Vermont), January 30.—An undetermined number of guests were killed when a fire destroyed the 75-room Jesse Weldon Inn here early…
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NEW YORK, February 1.—Four people are thought to have died in a fire which destroyed the 75-room Jesse Welden Inn at St…
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Hong Kong, February 1.—Twenty-six Chinese passengers are believed dead and fifteen were taken to hospital is the result of a panic due to a small…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire That Wasn't
In answer to a man who through the Telephone Exchange, stated he thought there was a fire in either Blende or Beryl Streets near Gossan Street. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Netley Fire Loss to Be Estimated
Although no survey has yet been made, it is estimated that about 100,000 acres of grass and timbered country were destroyed in the…
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Wellington (N.Z.), A.A.P.-Reuter, February 4.—Some time before the actual fire at Ballantyne's, a false alarm had been given from a point near…
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Melbourne, February 5.—An 8ft. shark kept bathers from the water at Sandrigham for more than six hours yesterday while it cruised along the beach…
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A diesel truck returning from Cordillo Downs (Queensland) caught fire near Olive Downs Statlion last Thursday. The driver and…
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Sydney, February 6.—The Joint Coal Board was under fire from the Central Council of the Miners' Federation…
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