Fire Brigade Calls
Total number of calls answered by Central and South Fire Station. for 1948 was 130. Of these, 35 were false [?]…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
319 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 16
Fire In Yacht
Hobart.—The South Australian yawl Nerida caught fire in Constitution Dock, Hobart, last night after a spirit stove had exploded…
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Sydney.—Thousands of people packed George Street outside Wynyard railway station to watch city brigades fighting a blaze on the two top floors of Chartres House, a four-storey-building, adjoining…
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Wagga.—Herbert William Lange (7), of Mildil, near West Wyalong, was burned lo death in a fire which destroyed two rooms of a…
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Central Fire Brigade was called yesterday afternoon at 5.15 p.m. to a fire at the rear of the Palace Hotel. A laundry and woodhenp…
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About 5.15 p.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade was called to the Palace Hotel where a laundry and woodheap were afire. Only slight damage resulted…
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New York, January 7.—A beer party in a fire station, which was enlivened by theatrical entertainers, has led to the suspension…
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A Central Fire Brigade engine attended a fire in a fuse-box outside a shop at 101 Argent Street today after receiving a call at 8.55…
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Cowra, January 12.—Damage estimated at a quarter of a million pounds was caused when a fire gutted one of the biggest country stores in N.S.W. at…
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A fire occurred in a fuse-box outside a shop situated at 101 Argent Street yesterday. The call was received at 8.55 a.m. The fire was extinguished…
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Karachi, January 13.—A storehouse containing cotton bales and cotton seeds were ablaze for three hours today in one of the biggest…
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Sydney. — Explosions combined with fire to destroy the largest store at Cowra. A £130,000 blaze in a big…
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Whilst [?] to make a straight out statement to the matter, many hardened race-goers are inclined to question the miallibility of the "Photo"…
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Melbourne, January 13.—Fearing for their safety. a farmer frantically seized his wife and two children and threw them into a dam early today to keep…
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Melbourne, January 14.—When a fire destroyed Townley dropforge factory in Elm Street, Brunswick, in 20 minutes today, thousands of pounds worth of…
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Sydney.—The freezing room, dining room, and workmen's chance room at the Riverstone Meat Works were destroyed by…
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Whilst reluctant to make a straight out statement on the matter, many hardened race-goers are inclined to question the infallibility of the "Photo"…
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London, January 14—Three-year-old Alls Abranova, daughter of a Soviet Consulate official, died in hospital after being rescued from a fire in the…
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DENSE SMOKE RISES from a spectacular fire which gutted the departmental store of Squire & Pepper at Cowra (N.S.W.). The fire was not controlled for three hours, and the whole town block was threatened. Damage was estimated at£130.000…
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Central Fire Brigade answered three false alarms yesterday. They were at. 4.59 p.m., corner Bromide and Wolfram Streets; 9.9…
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