Fires, Accidents Vital Statistics Details
Fires.—There have been 38 actual fires, 8 chimney fires [?] car fires. 36 false alarms and 15 rubbish fires, making a toal of 105 calls…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Grass Fire at Bourke
Sydney.—Big grass fires are raging in the Bourke district. One fire has a front of more than two miles…
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Damage caused by a fire at the City Council's Galena Street plant last night was slight, the deputy…
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Adelaide, October 16.—A fire at 3 a.m. today burnt out the nurses' quarters at Lady Weigall Hospital at Barmera. Many nurses escaped…
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New York, James J. Moran, former First Deputy Fire Commissioner has been indicted by a Grand Jury on charges of conspiring to extort £500,000 (about £A223,000) a year from installers of fuel oil burners and storage…
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More than 100 gallons of tar was burnt and a considerable amount of damage done to rooting when a fire broke out…
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Sydney.— Fires have destroyed over 200,000 acr of pastur land. Graziers fear that thousands of sheep…
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"I didn't know what I was doing," was the excuse William Leonard Phillips gave Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., in the Court of Petty Sessions…
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SYDNEY.—More than 300 men are fighting bush fires on a 100mile front between…
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A fire which has been, raging in the Burke-Hun-gerford- Wanaaring area since yesterday has…
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The bush fire which has been raging in the BourkeWanaaring-Hungerford area for the past few days is…
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Reports received by the Flying Doctor Base yesterday indicated that the bushfire which has been raging in the Bourke-Wanaaring-Hungerford district was out of control and sweeping southwards, fanned…
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The Central Fire Brigade attended a fire at Savory's in Argent Street about 3 p.m. yesterday. Slight damage to…
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Sydney —Police early yesterday morning battered a way through two locked doors to rescue a sleeping man from a blazing house…
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Mr. F. Basden, operator at the Flying Doctor Base, reported yesterday that the bushfire which had, been raging in the Paroo district…
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Several complaints have been received by police about campers leaving fires unattended outback. Some grassfires have been…
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Sydney —One hundred firefighters, the majority of them dressed in night attire, fought 100ft. high flames which caused over £20,000 worth of damage at Boorowa,…
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Sydney —Firefighters in north-western N.S.W. are standing by for emergency as strong winds sweep across the tinder-dry countryside. Winds at times reaching 50 miles per hour are sweeping through parched townships in the north-west…
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Adelaide, October 23.—Police to-day arrested two 17-year-old youths for allegedly having set fire to two suburban churches—one a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Quell Cairo Riots; Fire on Mobs
London —Anti-British and American riots in Cairo today called for the full strength of the police on beat duty and reserves to prevent attacks. Rifles were fired over the heads of the crowds to intimidate them- Shouts of "Long Live Russia" came from the…
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