200 Men Fight Bush Fire
Sydney.—Nearly 200 men worked continuously last night to save two big properties in the Glenorie…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
428 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 22
False Alarms of Fire Increase
Malicious false alarms of fire recorded last year were far too numerous, and if offenders were caught immediate police action would be taken, said a spokesman…
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Melbourne. — A fire which broke out in the refreshment room in the hill enclosure at Flemington…
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Sydney, January 2.—The prohibition on lighting ot fires in the open air has been extended until midnight on Wednesday, January…
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Sydney — The heat wave which has crippled N.S.W. this week continued today when Sydney had…
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London, January 4—The Salford Palace, the Manchester Theatre where Charlie Chaplin acted in the…
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Tamworth, January 4,—Every available man in Warialda and from miles around was fighting desperately…
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Montreal, January 6.—Five elderly invalids, either bedridden or partially, blind, perished yesterday…
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New York, Monday, — Fourteen persons were unaccounted for after a fire, which destroyed a block of…
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Jerusalem, Monday. — Police flooded roads with petrol and set them ablaze to keep back 10,000 Jews who were marching on Parliament and shouting "No truck with Hitler's heirs."…
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New York, Monday.—Four persons were injured when one of the worst fires in the history of Atlantic City, New Jersey, today destroyed three hotels, 12 boarding houses, and a theatre…
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A freak whirlwind at Hallway Town Indirectly started a small fire yesterday afternoon when It struck the front of a house at 96…
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Sydney.— The strongest possible pressure would be maintained to establish a cease-fire in Korea, said the…
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Melbourne.—Three people escaped through a bedroom window as fire swept through their home at a…
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Slight damage was caused by fire at the rear pf a house occupied by Mr. S. H. Bastin, at 96 Wills Street,…
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Sydney, January 9.—The total ban on lighting fires in the open expired at midnight tonight. It is understood the ban will not be…
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Quebec, Wednesday. — Buldozers fought a fire which threatened to destroy the town of Sept Iles…
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Melbourne, January 9.—A pekinese dog woke a man and his wife and mother-in-law as flames nicked into their bedrooms at…
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Sydney.—Two fires in Sydney last night caused damage estimated at nearly £200,000 in three…
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Two calls were received by the Central Fire Brigade between 12 and 1 p.m. today…
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