Fire Call
A call was received by the Central Fire Brigade at 5.43 p.m. yesterday to 149 Pell Street, where there was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
455 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 23
Escaped Fire Death
Katoomba.—A man, his wife and baby escaped down a blazing stairway after being trapped by a fire in their bedroom at Katoomba early today. The fire started in the…
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New York, June 13.—Five men were killed and 11 injured in a raging fire which swept the U.S. Navy…
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A small domestic fire broken out, at the home of Albert Henry Strempel, 149 Pell Street, at 5.43 p.m. on Tuesday. It is understood that some household…
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Grafton.—A 10 years-old boy who admitted starting a fire in the Salvation Army Citadel told the police that he had put a match to methylated spirits in the…
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Montreal, June 15.—At least 32 persons were burnt to death in the Hospice of St. Cunegonde today. It was a five-storey…
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There will be no inquest into citizen all the fire which broke out at the theme of Albert Henry Strempel, [?] Pell Street, at 8.45. on Tuesday…
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Tokio, June 17.—Another of the fantastic and regrettable episodes which estrange allies occurred in Korea today, when American tanks fired on an…
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Montreal June 17. —The deathroll from the disastrous fire which gutted an orphanage and home for the aged rose yesterday to 34 and firemen said it…
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Montreal, June 18.—Firemen found three more bodies today in the ruins of St. Cunegond Hospice, bringing…
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Sydney—The starboard engine of a Solent flying boat, carrying 39…
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At 3.15 p.m. on Tuesday the Fire Brigade answered a call to 50 Nicholls Street, Railway Town, where there was a fire in a bathroom…
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Darwin—A strong easterly wind last night seems to have saved a wide strip of the Northern Territory from devastation by fire. That which has done so much damage is ascribed to a motorist. Under the strong breeze…
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Adeldide, June 25.—A message received from Darwin tonight states the centre of Northern Territory has be[?] a blazing inferno with a hege…
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Brisbane—The police were completely baffled yesterday when they tried to discover the cause of death of a young married woman at her home, at Dalby…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called at 7.20 o'clock last night to 26 Beryl Street to a chimney fire. The…
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A chimney fire was extinguished last night by the Central Fire Brigade, using buckets of water. The call was received at 7.20 p.m., the fire being at 26 Bery!…
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Newark (NeW Jersey), July 10;—Sabotage as the cause of the great fire in Newark on Satuiday has…
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New York, July 15.—New devastation threatens the twin cities of Kansas City. Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, following rite cellapse of a dyke on the banks of the Missouri River. The. collapse of the dyke released torrents of muddy…
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New York, July 16.—Fire did what law-enforcers of two States have been unable to do. It removed…
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