Fire At Central Mine
A quantity of old wood at the former Central Mine mill caught fire about 9 o'clock on Friday night. Both the Central and South Fire Brigades attended…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
373 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 19
Grass Fire on Kars
A small grass fire which occurred on Kars Station late yesterday afternoon is believed, to have been caused by a match or cigarette butt…
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Paris, August 7.—A 15-yer-old boy was taken to prison yesterday after confessing that he had started 16 forest fires…
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A gross fire, which burnt from five to ten acres at Kars Station on Sunday afternoon, is believed to have been caused by a match or cigarette thrown from a…
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This new fire engine, the biggest Sydney has ever had, can pump 750 gallons of water a minute and has a speed of 70 m.p.h. Modern fire fighting equipment like this is expensive. Costs of N.S.W. Fire Brigades are met three ways—…
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Melbourne. — Members of a fanatical religious sect or firebugs might be responsible for the series of fires at migrant hostels…
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South Korea (AAP-Reuter), August 14.—The American 24th Division which this morning counter attacked the main North Korean bridgehead across the Naktong River has made "great progress" according to front line reports. The…
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Hong Kong (AAP-Reuter), August 17.—Batteries on three Chinese Communist Islands near Hong Kong today fired on the British destroyer H.M.S…
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Tokio, August 18.—Communist shells fell in the key city of Taegu early today, as four North Korean tank-led divisions smashed into the north-west corder of the Allied defence box…
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Melbourne—A detective said at Box Hill Court that a wife told him she had set fire to a garage at her fireman-husband's home…
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Tokio (AAP-Reuter), August 18.—Tank led 25th Division troops and a South Korean force today rolled bock the 30,000 man Communist offensive on Toegu with a forceful counter attack 13 miles north of the city. According to the…
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Melbourne.—A change of wind saved a row of houses from destruction by a fire which gutted a factory at Pt. Melbourne early…
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Los Angeles, August 21.—The evacuation of four towns in the Pine Valley settlement was ordered today, when a forest fire…
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Central fire brigade extinguished a fire in a private house in Lane Lane. North Broken Hill, early this morning…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered two calls late yesterday afternoon. One was a small rubbish fire at the rear of 333 Blende…
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After a period of comparative quiet the Central Fire Brigade received two calls within an hour yesterday afternoon. The first, received at 4.54 p.m., proved…
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SYDNEY.—With only a towel round his waist, a young man dashed into a blazing cottage at Merrylands today,…
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An carly start is to be made on the revival of bush fire fighting organisations in the Western Division in preparation for the coming…
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Early precautions are being taken against the spread of bush fires this year and early meetings will be called of various bodies, including the Barrier…
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Central Fire Brigade was called at 10.27 a.m. today to 586 Lane Street, where a quantity of fat in an oven had caught fire. It was…
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