Calls for Fire Brigade
At 9.11 o'clock yesterday morning the Central Fire Brigade received a call from the corner of Argent and Kaolin Street. It proved to be a malicious…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Lucky Escape From Fire
Katoomba.—Seven members of the staff of the Hydro-Majestic Hotel, Medlow Bath, lost practically all their personal belongings…
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London, November 10.—Thousands of tons of raw rubber, oil stores and export goods, including cargoes for Australia, are stored in a 400 yard long, three storey warehouse gripped by the worst dockland fire in Liverpool's history…
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Lithgow. November 11.—The Commissioner of Railways (Mr. Garside) is expected to officially recognise the courage of a small band of railway…
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Paris, November 13.—Three people died and four were badly burnt in a Are which partly destroyed the headquarters of the…
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A motor car which caught fire on the Cockburn Road about 9.30 o'clock last night, was destroyed except for the two front tyres…
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Mildura.—A fire on the property of Mr. Barnfield, at Gol Gol, near Mildura, last night destroyed the woolshed and did damage…
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A chimney fire broke out at the home of Mr. Anthony Crowhurst, on the corner of Harris and Cornish Streets, shortly after 8…
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New York, November 16.—The American steamer Flying Cloud (6.214 tons) was yesterday attacked by a Chinese Nationalist warship as she ran the…
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Sydney.—The whole of. N.S.W., from the seaboard right back to the South Australian border was ready to go up in flames, the…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called to the home of Mrs. Anthony Crowhurst at the comer of Harris and Cornish Streets at 8 o'clock yesterday morning…
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Adelaide.—Thirty-five firemen battled for more than an hour to eantrol a fire which brake out in a barley drying kilo at the…
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BATAVIA, November 17.— Unknown gunmen opened fire on the house of Colonel J. Breemouwer, commander…
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With the drying off of spear grass, the bush fire danger is mounting rapidly in this district. Stating this today the Forestry Officer (Mr. H. Dring) said that…
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Sydney, November 20.—An air reconnaissance and patrol during the bushfire danger period this summer will be operated by the R.A.A.F. The…
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New York, November 21.— A volunteer fireman with 7 young children admitted to police that he had lit 35 fires because he…
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Tamworth.—A driver whose car find trailer were destroyed by fire, believes that a cigarette butt thrown from a passing car, caused…
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Auckland.—Fire destroyed the New Zealand Forest Products sawmill at Atiamuri, which produces 7,000,[?]00 feet of sawn timber…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain's Ticket Suspended; Company Slated Fatal Canadian Steamer Fire Inquiry
Ottawa, November 22.—A Supreme Court Judge yesterday suspended for a year the certificate of Captain William Taylor, master…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Panama Nationals Fire on Demonstrators Ex-President Withdraws Resignation
Panama City, November 23.—National police opened fire as thousands of demonstrators, led by the ousted President (Dr. Daniel Chants), marched on…
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