Fighting Fires
Sydney — Police and volunteer firemen are fighting a huge bushfire threatening…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Inquest On Fire Victim
An inquest into the death of Dianne Judith Bloomfield [?] months old), who perished in a [?]re at 514 Cummins Street on…
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New York, November 21 — Hungarian and Rumanian border patrols fired on an…
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Severe damage to a storeroom under a staircase resulted from a [?]re which broke out in the Federal Palace Hotel in the early…
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Failure or motorists to give way to fire brigades and ambulances is causing traffic authorities concern. A police traffic officer said today that a major accident was narrowly averted on…
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The bushfires that have been experienced in the State over the part few weeks have indeed been terribleâas bushfires always are…
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Sydney, November 21.—The township of Glen Davis tonight was nearly ringed by bushfires, and huge oil plants…
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Sir,—I wondered whether you would print the following appeal in your paper: The Manly Girl Guides have…
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Sydney, November 22.—The passenger of a truck, who was pinned in the cabin after the truck overturned near Clarence…
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Tokio (AAP-Reuter), November 22.—For the second day in succession Australian Navy planes and warships blasted targets in Hungnam, on the north-east coast of Korea. The enemy port is an important sea…
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Sydney, November 22.—Increased winds tomorrow morning will cause a serious bushfire threat throughout the State, a Weather…
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Sydney— Firefighters successfully checked a bushfire which threatened Coonabarabran in the North…
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The Central Fire Brigade received a few malicious false alarms yesterday afternoon. A call came from the corner of…
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Tokio, November 23—Allied and Communist staff officers hope to complete at Panmunjong today the mapping of a ceasefire line in North Korea…
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Sydney, November 23. — The small mining township of Angus Place is threatened with complete destruction by bushfires. The fires…
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Sydney—A grim and gloomy picture, involving serious prospects of accentuated food shortages and economic problems, is emerging from progressive surveys of the…
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Damage estimated at £2000 was caused to Brenton Bros.' bakehouse in Chapple Street by a fire which raged for over an hour late last night. The fire is believed to…
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Sydney, November 25.—Foresters tonight labored to burn firebreaks to prevent two fires entering valuable State pine plantations at…
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Dianne Judith Bloomfield, aged 6 months, died from burns accidentally received in a fire at her parents' home at 544 Cummins Street on November 18. The fire started accidentally. This was the finding of the Coroner (Mr. C. K. Ward) at the inquest…
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Fire damaged the A.N.A.'s rest room and kiosk housed in the same building at Mildura on Sunday night. The…
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