Basement Fire In London Worst For 20 Years
London, December 21.—As dawn broke over London today smoke-blackened firemen were still fighting the city's worst basement blaze for 20 years. The blaze…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
319 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 16 of 16
Fire at South
At 10.12 a.m. today Central and South Fire Brigades turned out to a fire at the rear of the South Football Club rooms…
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London, December 22.—The Covent Garden fire was finally extinguished after 33 hours. In all [?] firemen were drawn from every station in London and…
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Six bags of chaff were damaged yesterday when a fire broke out in a truck at the Silverton Tramway Railway Town. The Central Fire Brigade…
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The Fire Brigade was considerably hampered at times by not being able to locate hydrants at the scene of fires, Station Officer v. Dolman said today. Sand-drift often covered the hydrants and it was…
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Although the official insurance estimate has nut yet been returned from Adelaide, it is expected that damage caused to the shed and storeroom at…
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For high dramatic quality nothing compares with a fire. But even as the galloping horse gave way to the motor engine and the handpump to the mighty pressure pump, so slowly the only colour that will be left to us will be that associated with…
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Rear portion of premises at 351 Oxide Street were damaged by fire in the early hours of this morning. The Central Fire Brigade…
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The South Fire Brigade answered a call yesterday at 10.12 a.m. to a small [?]re at the South Football Club rooms. The fire was extinguished with one…
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Katoomba, December 27. — Despite high temperatures experienced on the Blue Mountains today fire tighten had their first day of rest for three days. A…
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The rear portion of premises at 351 Oxide Street were damaged by fire in the early hours of Saturday morning. The Central Fire Brigade received the…
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Sydney.— A Catholic priest, Father Bagot, fought a blaze in Sacred Heart-Church, Darlinghurst, until brigades arrived…
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New York, December 27.—A fire that started in a Christmas tree burned out a large part of the village of Hyndman, Pennsylvania…
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Sydney, December 28.—To combat the growing bush fire danger in [?] stricken inland areas, special conditions in retard to lighting of…
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Sydney, December 28.—The heat wave which has gripped inland N.S.W. for days continued today with no signs of cooler temperatures. At Ivanhoe water has been severely rationed and police said today the supply was rapidly dwindling and they…
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Sydney.—Detectives believe that the sun's rays, concentrated through a periscope of an armored car, caused a fire which destroyed…
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London, December 28. — P[?] child actors to a Christmas [?]…
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Tokio, December 29 (AAP-Reuter).— Five persons were burned to death and 17 fireman injured today in a fire in the heart of Puk[?]ks, the largest city in the…
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Lismore.—A dairy farmer and his wife are in Lismore Base Hospital in a critical condition as a result of burns suffered when they…
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A shed at the rear of the premises at 48 Rainbow Avenue was destroyed by a fire at 12.54 p.m. yesterday. The shed contained a quantity of timber and this…
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