Railway Town Fire
At 4.42 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Central Fire Brigade was called to a shop situated at 53 Nicholls Street occupied by Shamus Patrick Clarke…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
319 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 12 of 16
Fire at Tivoli Theatre
At 8.8 o'clock last night the Central Fire Brigade was called to the Tivoli Theatre. One of the drop curtains on the stage was alight but it was…
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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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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call to an electrical fire at 169 Thomas Street about noon yesterday. The fire was extinguished by turning off the…
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As an indirect consequence of the small fire at the Tivoli Theatre on Thursday the wet weather arrangements for last night's boxing could not be…
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One of the greatest fires that took place in modern times, was that which broke out in San Francisco after the earthquake on 1906, although in California the earthquake is never mentioned and the catastrophe is listed as a fire. But fire and…
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Damage to a kitchen and bath-room resulted from a fire at 311 Patton Street yesterday. The house is occupied by Mr. William…
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Sydney.—Four fire brigades last night fought a fire at the Australian Paper Mills, Botany. They saved a 200-ton slack of waste…
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A fire, which originated in a kerosene refrigerator, damaged the bedroom and kitchen of a house at 311 Patton Street yesterday afternoon…
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There was a fire call somewhere in Australia every hour last year. Through fires, 20 people were killed, and 198 people were seriously injured. It is impossible to assess the extent of damage to property by fires, as insurance figures based on…
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Cincinnati, November 3.—Six were killed and 11 were overcome by fumes when fire destroyed a frame tenement house here…
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Brisbane, November 4.—A 16-year-old school-girl slid down a pole after pushing her mother over a 15 ft. awning to escape from a biasing building in Petrie…
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Lithgow, November 6.—Five railwaymen risked their lives to clear two trucks loaded with explosives from a blazing building at Bowenfels last night…
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Melbourne.—A 91-year-old man died yesterday after accidentally setting fire to his beard. He was Michael Francis Egan,…
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Melbourne, November 6.—Without communication to the fire brigate, ambulance and other essential services, interstate, country and suburban telegraph circuits were completely dislocated for more than fifteen hours when a fire destroyed…
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Sydney, November 7.—Local councils throughout the State are being advised by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Matthews) to place their [?] with him without…
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Early last night the Central Fire Brigade was called to a shop at 53 Nicholls Street, Railway Town, where an electric motor caught fire and burnt out…
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At 6.57 p.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade was called to a shop at 53 Nicholls Street. A refrigerator motor which had caught…
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Coonamble.—A blazing fuel lorry driven into Coonamble set fire to the Commonwealth Bank building. The lorry, containing 500 gallons…
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The South Fire Brigade at 7.4 o'clock last night extinguished a grass fire in Wilson Street off Lawton Str[?]t. Little damage was done…
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