Serious Fire Danger On Coast
Sydney, September 8.—The threat of freshening westerly winds is intensifying the very serious fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
393 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 14 of 20
Pensioner Has Bath Bed; Fire Loss
Adelaide: With a bath for a bed and a kerosene drum for chair or table, a 60years-old pensioner, Alfred Ernest Hones, of Mylor, is living in a shed…
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Adelaide: Police are investigating the cause of a fire yesterday at a warehouse in Charles Street,…
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Adelaide: Police are, investigating the cause of a fire yesterday at a warehouse in Charles Street,…
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Some roof timbers were damaged when an overheated chip-heater flue caused a fire in the bathroom at 150…
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Some roof timbers were damaged when an overheated chip-heater flue caused a fire in the bathroom at 150…
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At 10.31 o'clock on Saturday morning the Central Fire Brigade was called to 150 Cornish lane where…
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Damage to the electrical wiring was caused by a fire which broke out in the engine of a Studebaker utility…
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Police believe that a firebug or some person with incendiary motives is at large in Broken Hill. They say that a deliberate attempt…
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Yesterday the R.S.L. Secretory (Mr. E. P. Brady) announced the opening of a public appeal for the…
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Adelaide: Partly completed living quarters for single employees were substantially damaged in yesterday's fire…
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Adelaide: Hilton Dry Cleaners, Cowandilla, was severely damaged by fire last night…
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The Central Pire Brigade was called to 82 Wyman Street shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday and found a…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called to 82 Wyman Street shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday and found a…
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The Central brigade was called to a rubbish fire at 465 Chapple Street at 7.30 o'clock this morning. The…
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The secretary of the Fire Brigade Employees Union, Mr. J. W. Lambert, said yesterday that his union intends to request Hie S.I.C. to press for four additional permanent…
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Sydney: The procedure for prohibiting lighting fires in the open air should the need arise during summer was announced by the Acting Chief Secretary (Mr. J. F. McGrath)…
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Sydney: Lindsay Mazzaraccea (22), a sculptor, dived through a closed window 30ft. to the ground to escape being burnt to death, and was only slightly cut and…
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Sydney: A fire damaged plant and stock worth £40,000 in a Camperdown costume jewellery factory. The factory was a threestory building in Parramatta Road. Popolare Metal Stamping…
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Sydney: A fire damaged plant and stock worth £40,000 in a Camperdown costume jewellery factory. The factory was a threestory building in Parramatta Road. Popolare Metal Stamping…
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