Explosion and Fire Cause £40,000 Damage
Sydney, Nov. 2: A violent explosion and several minor blasts shattered a large earth-moving equipment building and caused £40,000 worth of damage at Mascot tonight…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
393 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 20
Boys Caused Big Fire
Sydney, Nov. 3. — Two young boys playing with matches caused an explosion and fire which…
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Sydney: Two boys playing with matches caused the £50,000 explosion and fire at a Mascot factory on…
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Boston, Wednesday: Chemicals exploded and set fire to the Norwegian freighter Black Prince in Boston,…
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Trieste, Thursday: The anti-Allied riots of the past two days flared info open gun fighting this afternoon when yelling Italians bombarded the British…
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[?] Fire [?] £8,000 [?] chope. The mill, [?] the Oxley…
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Melbourne: Police are investigating what they believe was a deliberate attempt to burn down the Princess…
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Melbourne: Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the military camp theatre…
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A fire completely gutted and destroyed the contents of a wood and iron shed at the corner of Bromide and…
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Mr. T. J. Smith, chairman of the Fire Board Commissioners will arrive at Broken Hill tomorrow…
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Brisbane: With the clothing almost burned off their bodies, a farmer and his wife huddled on the ground yesterday as flames from a run-away sugarcane fire swept over…
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Fire gutted and destroyed an old wood and iron shop at 237 Bromide St. about 1.40 p.m. yesterday…
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Mr. T. J. Smith president of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade Board of Commissioners the…
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Speaking ot a presentation social at Hie Fire Station Hall last night, the president of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. T. J. Smith) said he was confident that…
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The Fire Board Commissioners regarded the appointment of additional firemen to the Broken Hill station as an extravagance…
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Adelaide: The nurse's quarters in the isolation block on Torrens Island quarantine station were gutted by fire at 5.20 a.m. today…
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"I am quite definite that the available staff at Broken Hill fire station at the moment is not adequate, and the additional…
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Sydney, Nor. 15: Thousands of volunteer firemen battled to save homes in bush and grasslands throughput NSW today. Big fires are raging on the north and south coasts threatening Valuable State forests. Near Sydney 25 homes are ringed by fire which destroyed a…
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London: Three children trapped in their bedroom died when fire destroyed a Liverpool home…
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Three sheds at the rear of Conroy's butcher's shop in Crystal Lane were severely damaged by fire and…
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