Three Fires In Eight Hours
Fires in a panel vari and hotel laundry last night received the attention of local brigades. A third small fire was discovered…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
319 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 16
Two Fire Calls Last Night In City Block
The Central Fire Brigade received two calls to fires within a block of each other last night. The first was to a delivery van which…
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Hong Kong (AAP Reuter), September 4.—About 1.000 people are dead and 100,000 homeless in Chungking as a result at a disastrous fire which broke cut on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Claim for Fire on Ship Fails
Perth. — Chief Justice Dwyer dismissed a claim for £300,000 damages by the owners of the steamer…
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Chungking, September 6.—Two m[?]n suspected of starting a fire in Chungking which killed 1000 people were shot…
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At 10.53 o'clock en Tuesday night the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to Johnson's Theatre where a fire had occurred In a motor cycle due to a fault…
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Formation of another fire-fighting organisation will be discussed by pastoralists at McDougall's Well on September 24. The meeting…
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A shed, at South Broken Hill measuring 40 by 20 was gutted by fire shortly after 7.30 o'clock lost night. It was situated behind the residence at 34…
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Melbourne—Fire destroyed a two storyed laundry and repair shop at Abbotstors convent today. One hundred nuns and girl…
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Hong Kong, September 16. (A.A.P.-Reuter) — Thousands were left homeless when a fire — the third big blaze in a…
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London.—Action of the British Foreign Secretary (Mr. Ernest Bevin) in having a tooth extracted in New York under the British National Health scheme has trained, the spotlight once more on this scheme. It is again under fire here for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OVER 200 Die in Disastrous Toronto Boat Blaze Drunken Parties Cause Mob Hysteria Surviving Passengers, Crew In Bitter Argument
Toronto, September 18.—At least 216 people are believed to have been killed in the swift disastrous fire which swept the Great Lakes cruise ship Noronic (6,905 tons) at…
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Toronto, September 19. —The Canadian Government today ordered the crew of the Great Lake…
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RADIO PICTURE of the mangled deck of the Great Lakes pleasure cruiser, Noronic, after Saturday's tragic…
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A meeting of pastoralists at McDougall's Well on Saturday will discuss the formation of another organisation to combat bush fires…
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Local fire brigades received two calls last night. At 7.25 o'clock the Central Brigade was called to the Commercial Hotel, where a…
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At 7.25 o'clock last night the Central Pire Brigade was called to the Commercial Hotel where a chimney fire was extinguished…
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Sydney, September 22—A 60-year-old woman battled through smoke and flames to rescue her two grandchildren in bed in a blazing Erskinville home…
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At a meeting held at McDougall's Well on Saturday another firefighting organisation, to be known as the Barrier Range Fire…
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At 1.56 p.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade was called to premises at 203 Oxide Street to extinguish a small chimney fire. Mo structural damage was…
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