Huge Bushfire Flares Up In Springwood Area
Sydney, December 18—Hundreds of Firefighters tonight are battling a huge bushfire which flared up at…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Children Die in Fire
Anchorage (Alaska), Dec. 19.—Four children were burned to death in thier cabin at Spenard…
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Sydney, Dec. 19. — A sudden change in the wind this afternoon increased the serious bushfire…
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Vancouver, December 20. — Eleven persons were missing after a fire which swept the motorship Eerian, at…
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A large shed at the rear of 236 Cummins Street was completely destroyed by fire at noon yesterday…
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Sydney. —A firehose being used to fight a blaze at the Hydro Majestic Hotel. Medlow Baths, was cut in…
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Sydney, December 21.—A fire tonight destroyed 10 rooms in the staff quarters of the Hydro Majestic, Medlow Bath. Damage…
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A short circuit in the electrical Installations may have been the cause of the fire that destroyed a large garage and storeroom in…
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Thousands of pounds worth of electrical equipment was endangered in a fire in the North Mine…
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Firemen and the North Mine fire staff saved valuable equipment in the electrical workshop on Sunday night, when a fire…
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London, December 23. — Disciplinary action against London's firemen for a recent "spit and polish" boycott was withdrawn…
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Melbourne.—A man and a woman died in Royal Melbourne Hospital from burns received in a fire in a hut at…
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Adelaide—Two grass fires have cost graziers £10,000. Of that sum half was the damage caused on…
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Brisbane — Police are searching the ruins of Hamilton private hotel swept by fire yesterday to…
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Sydney, December 27.—The ban on the lighting of fires in the open has been extended until Wednesday, January 2, the Chief…
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An 18-months-old baby, Joan Marilyn Sarrer, was fatally shot by her four-year-old cousin, [?] Sarrer, at Monolon Station. White…
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Firemen, from the Central Fire Station, today used a chemical extinguisher to quell a fire in the motor of…
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