Tragic Fire 5 Dead : 28 Missing LYNN (Massachusetts), Tuesday
LYNN (Massachusetts), Tuesday: A disastrous fire, which raged throughout the night, destroyed a large apartment building. Five of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
251 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 13
COUNCIL'S £75 GRANT Gunning Bush Fire Brigade
GUNNING: Equipment needed by the Bush Fire Brigade will be made available as the outcome of the Shire Council's decision to…
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A meeting of the captains of the Gunning Bush Fire Brigade was held on Friday night. Mr. C. E. Medway, Chief Captain, occupied the chair,…
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Owing to a water transformer burning out, there was no water supply on the high levels of the town on Monday…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: There were some thrills in a fire which gutted Mac's photographer's service factory in Chisholm…
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Railway rolling stock, tog ether with large consignments. of general merchandise, suffered damage estimated at several thousand pounds during a spectacular fire in the railway yards at South Goulburn early on Sunday morning…
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A fire which broke out in country bordering the Wollondilly River near the North Goulburn railway quarry at 9 o'clock oil Saturday night,…
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A petition, signed by sixteen residents and ratepayers of a subdivision at Lake Illawarra South, was received at the meeting of the Shellharbour…
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At the Kangaroo Valley police court last week, F. A. Wallis, a butcher and auctioneer, was fined £2, with 8/ costs of court, after…
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Goulburn, together with other country centres in N.S.W., has been brought within the scope of fire precautions gazetted…
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TALLONG: A public meeting was held in the Memorial Hall on Saturday evening to decide what steps should be taken to…
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LAUNCESTON, Thursday: Damage estimated at £10,000 was the result of the outbreak of the which destroyed four shops in the main street at…
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The Tallong Bushire brigade has been re-organised, and a new captain has to be appointed owing to the former captain having left the…
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The obvious danger of emptying gas producer burners on the road, side came directly under the notice of the Yass P.P. Board recently…
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Sir,--I was rather amazed to read in your issue of January 28th. that only eight landholders had supplied to the Chief Warden particulars of…
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In the event of serious bush fires in any part of the Comonwealth, the local telephone exchange will give continuous day and night service to…
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At the monthly meeting of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. on Saturday night there was a record attendance and the whole of the proceedings were…
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NEW YORK, Monday: Complete destruction faces the former French luxury liner Normandie, now the transport…
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Had it not been detected when it was a fire, which started in a stack of packing cases and cartons close to the rear wall of Mr…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday: Officialdom still insists that the fire on the transport Lafayette, formerly the liner Normandie, was not caused by…
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