Small Fire
The Central Fire Brigade answered a call yesterday morning at 5.45 o'clock to 285 Zebina Street, where there was a small fire in one of the rooms. The fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Lucky Escape in Fire
Sydney.—Less than two minutes after employees had run to safety from a fire in a glycerine…
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SCENE OF A FIRE which completely gutted the mental wing of Mercy Hospital at Davenport, Iowa (U.S.),…
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A shed at the rear of 488 Argent Street was destroyed by fire early today. Occupier of 488 Argent Street is Mrs. Florence Pettitt…
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A fire broke out yesterday in the power section of the Silver City Comet. As a result passengers to…
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At 5.55 a.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to 488 Argent Street, where a shed at the rear of the premises was on fire. The shed and…
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Auckland (N.Z.).—Fire damaged almost one-third of the Shaw Savill liner Mairangi's passenger accommodation…
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Sydney.—Sheep and cattle worth more than £5000 have been destroyed in a huge bush fire which is roaring, out of control, across hundreds of acres of land about 16 miles north of Holbrook…
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NEWCASTLE.—The waterfront was cordoned off and ships' crews were ordered ashore last night after…
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Precision tools valued at about £350 were among articles destroyed by a fire which broke out shortly after 10 a.m. today…
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Melbourne.—A transport driver was impaled on a locomotive buffer and was burnt to death last night when his semi-trailed collided with a goods train and burst into flames at a level crossing near…
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A shed and laundry combined at Railway Town was severely damaged yesterday morning when a fire spread from a copper and swept through the shed…
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Melbourne.—The police are investigating a theory that a fire which caused £20,000 damage in the Heidelberg Blue Bus…
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Auckland. N.Z. January 27 (A.A. Reuter)—Police are [?] possibility of a deliberate attempt to be fire to the 3,000 Shaw [?]…
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About the end of November 1906 the windjammer Carnarvon Castle left Liverpool on a voyage to Melbourne with a cargo of general merchandise. I was a forward hand on this vessel, which was originally the Red Rock of the Rock Line. I…
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Melbourne. January 30. — Fire caused damage estimated at £25.000 to the Heidelberg Motor Bus Co. Pty. Ltd.'s premises today. Police are investigating…
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Sydney.—Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which gutted McQuitty House, Regent Street, early this morning. Several floors collapsed, and only the shell of…
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Sydney.—A man was blown through a wall and another became a human torch when a fire…
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In this issue Mr. R. A. Bevan continues his reminiscences of the 24 days he spent in on open boat in 1907 after a fire on the windjammer Carnarvon Castle, on which he was a seaman. Mr. Bevan stated that his legs were so swollen at…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called to a car fire in front of 3[?]9 Argent Street shortly after 2 p.m. today. The car, owned by Mr…
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