Bedroom Fire
A cigarette is believed to have started a fire which broke out in a bedroom at 501 Chapple Lane shortly…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
393 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 20
Bazooka to Fight Fire
New York, February 2. — A bazooka is being used to snuff out two gas-well fires that have raged for seven…
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Shepparton.—An electrical storm started two fires at Undera and Tallygaroopna West, but put them both…
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Narrabri, February 3.—Murilla, one of the largest homesteads in the Wee Waa district, was destroyed by…
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A fire which broke out in the bedroom of a house at 501 Chapple Lane yesterday was fortunately extinguish…
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The South Fire Brigade was called to the rear of Bates' butcher shop in Patton Street at 9.37 o'clock…
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Chicago, Thursday.—The Pure Oil Co. reported that a 10-days natural gas-well fire in its field in the Gulf…
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This morning a little after midnight too Fire Brigade was called to a fire at the Gypsum Street…
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The vestry of the Presbyterian church on the corner of Gypsum Street and Ryan Lane, Railway…
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In a bush fire which broke out on Littlewood station, 50 miles due south of Ivanhoe, yesterday week, 10,000 acres…
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Melbourne.—Thousands of sheepskins, oxhides, hundreds of pounds of bacon, and sheep and pigs were…
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Melbourne.—Thousands of sheepskins, oxhides, hundreds of pounds of bacon, and sheep and pigs were…
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At [?] p.m. Saturday Central and South Fire Brigades answered a call to 2[?]3 Chloride Street where there…
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A motor car was destroyed by fire on the Bluff Road about 10 miles from Broken Hill last night…
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The vestry of the St. John's Presbyterian Church, Gypsum Street, was damaged in a fire Saturday…
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The installation of 25 new fire alarms has been completed in Broken Hill. The call boxes are telephone type, and of the same, design as those used in the capital…
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Geelong.—A fire at the North Geelong Fire Station in Melbourne last night is thought to have…
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Echuca (Vic.).—Fifteen passengers and the driver, Mr. Stan Weatherby, of Sydney, escaped when a Pioneer-Clipper bus caught alight eight miles from Echuca, on the…
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Pure Fire, the leading two-year-old of last season, has resumed work at Mentone in the charge of Fred…
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Nairobi, Monday—Police opened fire on an armed Kikuyu gang in the Fort Hall area today, killing nine and wounding one. Police headquarters said a…
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