Dog Gives Fire Alarm
Sydney.—A Great Dane dog gave a fire alarm by pulling a sleeping sergeant-major out of bed at the drill hall in Armidale,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Fire Guts Shipyard, Destroys 20 Mixed Boats
Sydney.—A spectacular fire early this morning gutted the shipyards of B. J. Halvorsen at Berry's Bay, North Sydney, and destroyed many boats. The blaze lit up the harbor and…
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A meeting of the Netley Fire— Fighting Organisation will be held at Ryan's Lake on Sunday. There will be a general…
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Sydney—A fire which swept through a three-storey building in Liverpool Street, Sydney, last…
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Sydney—A fire which swept through a three-storey building in Liverpool Street, Sydney, last…
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Sydney, November 19.—A woman was burned to death, a man seriously burned, and a bedridden woman carried to safety early this morning, when two…
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A meeting of the Netley Fire Fighting Organisation was held at Ryan's Lake yesterday, when a general discussion took place on matters relating to outback fire fighting. Sgt. J. Newell, of the Broken…
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Sydney, November 20.—Arson squad detectives believe it will take more than a week to compute investigations into the fire that gutted a building in the city…
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Sydney.—Fire damage in Sydney in the past nine days has totalled £257,000. Two fires during the week-end…
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London, November 24—About £100,000 damage was caused by a fire which swept a factory at Trearchy. Rhondda. Wales. today…
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Sydney. — Two girls, aged three and six, went back inside their burning homestead at Narrandera…
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London, November 26. — Eleven children three women and one man were burnt to death today in a camp on the…
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Melbourne.—Two shops were destroyed by fire and a woman was severely burnt when fire broke out in an upholstery factory in…
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Adelaide—Damage in fire which destroyed about 3000 acres of pine [?]orest at Nangwarry in the South-East yeaterday was estimated…
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Adelaide, November 28.—The Forestry Board today estimated damage caused by the lire which destroyed 3.000 acres of Government pine forest at Nangwarry,…
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At 9.43 a.m. today Central and South Fire Brigade answered on alarm and found a laundry at the rear of Drysdales Store, Bromide…
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A bushfire was reported from Mutooroo Station, about 70 miles from Broken Hill in South Australia, last night. The report was made to local police. A…
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An extensive grass fire, which broke out on Quondong Station, S.A., late yesterday is being fought by volunteers from adjoining properties. A report at 2.30 p.m. indicated that the fire was travelling south, and its front had…
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Adelaide, December 4.—A destructive fire occurred today at the factory at Pindon of Appliances Ltd. which is the assembly divisions of Kelvinator…
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Sydney.—A young couple and their nine months old baby narrowly escaped being burnt to death when a fire gutted the Hollywood guest house at Wallacia early this morning. They are Arthur Powell (30)…
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