Six Perish in Fire
Madrid, Wednesday: Modesto Cotelo and his five children died in a blazing house in Cormo Corunna…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
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Ice Works Fire
A fire broke out in the engine room of Roberts' ice works, 174 Oxide Street, this morning…
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A fire broke out in the engine room of Roberts' ice works, 174 Oxide Street, this morning…
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Sydney, Jan. 17: Another seal is being built in an attempt to halt the fire in the State…
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Hobart: The Bishop of Tasmania (Dr. G. F. Cranswick), wearing pyjamas, helped fight a fire at an East Coast holiday resort…
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Menindee police have prepared a report on a fire which destroyed a motor truck on the…
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Sydney: The N.S.W. Board of Pire Commissioners has announced that Mr. W. Osborne, formerly chief clerk,…
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London. January 10.—The captain and 23 crew members returned to the Admiralty tanker. Wave Victory…
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Lithgow, January 20.—The management of the State Coalmine had again…
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Adelaide: A new £3000 prefabricated house was almost completely destroyed and another was damaged in a fire…
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New York, Thursday: All Police-Sgt. Alexander R. Polowishz did was press a button for routine testing of the fire alarm system in the village of Hastings—on—…
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Sydney: A man set fire to his mother-in-law's home after an argument with his wife, police alleged in the…
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New York: Donald Brown left his job as an ice-rink attendant in Wisconsin when he heard his house…
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Melbourne: Fear hangs over the little town of Avenel, 72 miles north of Melbourne, today as firefighters battle desperately to save it from the Seymour bush fire…
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Damage estimated at many hundreds of pounds was caused when a fire broke out in a North mine cottage today occupied by Mr. W. E. Fitzpatrick…
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Melbourne: Two thousand army personnel and 350 volunteer fighters kept a round-the-clock watch last night as a fierce forest fire — fanned by a…
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Extensive damage to the ceiling and roof timbers of a North Mine residence occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Eric Fitzpatrick resulted from a fire that broke out in their laundry…
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Sydney: Dressed in nightclothes, Mrs. Nancy Archer escaped through a bedroom window, when a fire early…
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Hobart: Fire gutted the plywood mills at Somerset, linear Burnie. Damage is estimated at more than £200,000…
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Hobart: Fire gutted the plywood milis at Somerset, near Burnie. Damage is estimated at more than £200,000…
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