Chimney Fire
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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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Liquor On Trains And S.P. Phones Under Fire In Assembly
Sydney, September 20.—Although it is legal to permit liquor to be served on trains, the Railways commissioner (Mr. Garside) would not permit it Mr. Lands…
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Two elderly men were burnt to death in eastern States during the week end. Melbourne.—Dan Fitzgerald, 80-year-old pensioner, was trapped in…
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Central Fire Brigade turned out to 10 fires for September. There were four false alarms during that period…
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At 8.35 o'clock this morning the Central Fire Brigade was called to premises at 13, Cobalt Street, owned by Mr. R. L. Mitchell. A…
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About 8.35 a.m. yesterday, the Central Fire Brigade attended a chimney fire at 13 Cobalt Street. It was allowed to burn itself out…
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Sydney October 5.—The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said in the Legislative Assembly today that it was almost certain that the Federal Government would be well…
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Sydney.—Damage estimated at £50,000 was caused when a fire destroyed the R.A.A.F. No…
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Sydney, October 12.—A spectacular are broke out early this morning in the RAAF store at Regent's Park, following a series of violent explosions…
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Sydney.—A doctor carried several elderly and crippled patients to safety when Coniston Private Hospital, in Bellevue Hill, caught…
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At 10,16 a.m. today Central Fire Brigade answered a call to [?]98 Mercury Street. A small chimney lire was extinguished…
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Central Fire Brigade answered four calls between 10 a.m. and 1.10 P.m. First call was to a chimney fire…
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Sydney, October 14.—When a blaze swept up a wooden staircase of the Coniston Private Hospital, nurses carried aged bed-ridden men and…
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Sydney.—A fire broke out on a Butler Air Transport Company Douglas airliner during a flight to Sydney…
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City fire brigades had a busy Saturday when four calls to fires were answered and a malicious false alarm was reported…
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Hamburg, October 17.—Russia was playing with fire in her attempts to whip up German nationalism in the Eastern Zone. General Sir Brim Robertson…
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Wagga.—Ronald MacLoughlin (18), of North Wagga, was severely burnt yesterday when his clothes ignited while he was burning rushes with a haversack flamethrower…
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Sydney.—Valuable machinery was ruined when a spectacular fire swept through Proud Bros. Pty. Ltd.'s moulder facing factory…
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William Edward Hoare (27), station hand, was before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M., in the Tibooburra Police Court on Monday and Tuesday on two charges of maliciously attempting to set fire to the Tibooburra Hotel, the dwelling of William John…
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Prompt action by Central firemen enabled two Arcs yesterday to be extinguished without much damage…
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